Am Sonntag, den 10.02.2008, 09:28 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson: > reassign 464960 groff-base [..] > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:46:08AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Package: man-db [..] > Firstly, this should be on groff-base rather than man-db, but in any > case: > > > The code to reproduce it is rather simple. I found this one in manpage: > > > > <!--begin-index--> > > \.\.\. > > <!--end-index--> > > This code (remember that groff is a language with its own very specific > rules, which often correspond fairly closely to running text but not > always) is incorrect.
Well, groff(7) says: [..] > \. An uninterpreted dot (period), even at start of line. [..] This why I thought, the code is correct (I tried to fix source code, that did not escape the leading dots at all). So I thought, man-db is misinterpreting something. > he reasons are rather subtle. "\." is not a real > escape sequence; it is in fact equivalent to "." (the default control > character) except that it is "delayed" by one macro expansion. I wonder if the above quoted sentence in the manpage needs to be fixed then? [..] > The correct rendering of the above would be: > > <!--begin-index--> > \&... > <!--end-index--> Thanks for this. Works. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
