On 30/11/14 17:33, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 30/11/14 17:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> This is sent to the bug addresses for both help2man and split because I'm >> not sure where the fault lies. Both are GNU projects, so I hope you can >> cooperate and figure it out. >> >> In any event, the output of "help2man split" loses some line breaks and >> makes an itemized list somewhat hard to understand. This is the portion >> that begins "CHUNKS may be:" >> >> I'm an Xubuntu user, and this output is the man page we get. I expect the >> same is true of some or all debian-based distros, and perhaps others as well. > > Yes we should improve this. with the following simple patch > we get better output in the man page,
I've now pushed that and marking this as done. > though there are extraneous newlines then I'm not sure if tighter formatting is possible or appropriate for man pages. thanks, Pádraig.
