From 609e8af3c4fa913fae2a137a1edb8fb58f0506bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: erg <devnull@localhost>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:56:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make backslash escape character explicit in description of
 record labels.

---
 doc/info/shapes.html | 3 ++-
 doc/infosrc/shapes.2 | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/info/shapes.html b/doc/info/shapes.html
index 4e806bf95..8ca4056ca 100644
--- a/doc/info/shapes.html
+++ b/doc/info/shapes.html
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ which has the following schema:
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>where <I>field</I><TD>=<TD>fieldId</I> or '{' <I>rlabel</I> '}'</TR>
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>and <I>fieldId</I><TD>=<TD> [ '<' <I>string</I> '>'] [ <I>string</I> ]</TR>
   </TABLE>
-Literal braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped.
+Braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped with
+a backslash character if you wish them to appear as a literal character.
 Spaces are interpreted as separators between tokens,
 so they must be escaped if you want spaces in the text.
 <P>
diff --git a/doc/infosrc/shapes.2 b/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
index 093bc9a52..c22b70da6 100644
--- a/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
+++ b/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ which has the following schema:
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>where <I>field</I><TD>=<TD>fieldId</I> or '{' <I>rlabel</I> '}'</TR>
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>and <I>fieldId</I><TD>=<TD> [ '<' <I>string</I> '>'] [ <I>string</I> ]</TR>
   </TABLE>
-Literal braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped.
+Braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped with
+a backslash character if you wish them to appear as a literal character.
 Spaces are interpreted as separators between tokens,
 so they must be escaped if you want spaces in the text.
 <P>
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