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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: gdb.1 - order options alphabetically in manual 	page
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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> 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.