Re: [PATCH] gdb: gdb.1 - order options alphabetically in manual page

Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-16T17:23:33Z

> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:49:34 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> -.TP
> -.BI "\-symbols=" "file"\c
> -.TP
> -.BI "\-s " "file"\c
>
> Into:
>
> +.TP
> +.B -s FILE, \-symbols=FILE
>
> As it turns out, I'm really wondering whether this is a correct change,
> since the switch argument is no longer in italics. It seems to be the
> convention that such arguments be in italics. Eli, what do you think?

I think this part of the change is incorrect and should not be
installed. The switch argument _should_ be in italics, since they are
a functional equivalent of Texinfo's @var, which TeX typesets in
italics or cursive.