Issues in man ddate man page

[hmartink]

`Dear ddate maintainer, the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of man pages both from a large variety of sources (including ddate) as well for a large variety of target languages.

During their work translators notice different possible issues in the original (english) man pages. Sometimes this is a straightforward typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original.

We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss the latest upstream version once in a while, so the error might be already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check each and every issue.

Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into your source format.

Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify them.

I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports should use another channel, please let me know.

Man page: ddate.1 Issue: B<date(1),> → B(1), (sorry, github mangels the report here: move the (1), out of the bracket)

"If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be printed in a " "format specified by the string. This mechanism works similarly to the format " "string mechanism of B<date(1),> only almost completely differently. The " "fields are:"

Man page: ddate.1 Issue: B<ddate(1)> → B(1) (sorry, github mangels the report here: move the (1) out of the bracket)

"B<ddate(1)> will produce undefined behavior if asked to produce the date for " "St. Tib's day and its format string does not contain the St. Tib's Day " "delimiters %{ and %}."

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[danwdart]

Is this just a formatting error? I fail to see the problem with the English...

[hmartink]

I apologizie that githubs form breaks the text.

For both paragraphs, please move the "(1)" out of the angle brackts, so it reads B< ddate >(1) (without spaces!!) and not B<date(1)>. Also punctuation in the first paragraph should be moved outside the bold part.