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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-06-29 12:09:14 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400
commit05cc726731c5cec952722f1c14acb08e3d4d5e98 (patch)
treeff2fa1545aa2b02e2102f1f4e769e8063d5a50dd /man/hostnamectl.xml
parente9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (diff)
man: add more formatting markup
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diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
index d7a9e92879..28e875dafd 100644
--- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
+++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
<listitem><para>Execute the operation
remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by @,
+ username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>,
to connect to. This will use SSH to
talk to a remote
system.</para></listitem>
@@ -178,20 +178,21 @@
hostname will be simplified in regards
to the character set used before the
latter are updated. This is done by
- replacing spaces with "-" and removing
+ replacing spaces with
+ <literal>-</literal> and removing
special characters. This ensures that
the pretty and the static hostname are
always closely related while still
following the validity rules of the
specific name. This simplification of
the hostname string is not done if
- only the transient and/or static
- hostnames are set, and the pretty
- hostname is left untouched. Pass the
- empty string "" as the hostname to
- reset the selected hostnames to their
- default (usually "localhost").
- </para></listitem>
+ only the transient and/or static host
+ names are set, and the pretty host
+ name is left untouched. Pass the empty
+ string <literal></literal> as the
+ hostname to reset the selected
+ hostnames to their default (usually
+ <literal>localhost</literal>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>