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Re: [tex-live] manpage warning for updma.cfg.5



[Wearing the groff maintainer hat]

>  The user can override the default by specifying \fBdvips\fR \fI-Pdownload35\fR
> -... resp. \fBdvips\fR \fI-Pbuiltin35\fR ... to either download the LW35 fonts resp. use the
> + ... resp. \fBdvips\fR \fI-Pbuiltin35\fR ... to either download the LW35 fonts resp. use the
>  built-in fonts.

This is not a good idea.  The standard way to suppress a leading dot
recognized as a request start character is to precede it with the
zero-width escape, `\&'.

So the patch should rather read

> -... resp. \fBdvips\fR \fI-Pbuiltin35\fR ... to either download the LW35 fonts resp. use the
> +\&... resp. \fBdvips\fR \fI-Pbuiltin35\fR ... to either download the LW35 fonts resp. use the


    Werner


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