[PATCH] man: escape literal newlines

Christian Ebert blacktrash at gmx.net
Fri Jan 30 08:41:26 CST 2009


* Benoit Boissinot on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 14:21:21 +0100
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:12:53PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> * Christian Ebert on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 15:49:39 +0100
>>> xmlto version 0.0.18
> 
> It really looks like a bug in xmlto, one person on irc with MacOS didn't
> have any problem with xmlto version 0.0.21.
> The problem with the patch is that it has some side-effects, see the
> diff between patch and unpatched here:
> http://www.paste-it.net/private/v91d167/

Ah, alright (or wrong, hehe).

> So I prefer not to break non-buggy xmlto version.

Sure.

What do you think about using "a2x -f manpage" (a2x is included
in asciidoc) for manpage generation? Would mean less
dependencies, and atm the only difference in the output is that
a2x leaves out the footnotes. Perhaps I could find some way have
them in with a2x as well.

c
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