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Diffstat (limited to 'docutils/writers/manpage.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | docutils/writers/manpage.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docutils/writers/manpage.py b/docutils/writers/manpage.py index 7af7cbc5f..3ea996116 100644 --- a/docutils/writers/manpage.py +++ b/docutils/writers/manpage.py @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ class Translator(nodes.NodeVisitor): # unicode text = self.deunicode(text) # prevent interpretation of "." at line start - if text[0] == '.': + if text.startswith('.'): text = '\\&' + text if self._in_literal: text = text.replace('\n.', '\n\\&.') |