Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.4-1 Severity: minor Under Etch there was a bug in the displaying of man pages that caused markup which was intended to affect the color, highlighting, or other display attributes of the text to be displayed literally, rather than simply affecting the formatting. For example, when looking at the man page for aptitude with
man aptitude one would see things such as \fBinstall\fR displayed literally, instead of install being displayed in high intensity, or blue, or whatever type of highlighting was applicable to the terminal type being used. Under Lenny, this bug has been fixed, and properly coded man pages are now being displayed as intended. On the other hand, some man pages are now not being displayed correctly because they were not coded properly in the first place, even though they appeared to be working under Etch. The man page for modprobe.conf is one such man page. Since the backward slash character (\) is the escape character for the formatting markup, if a literal backward slash is desired, it must be doubled in the input text in order for a single backward slash to be displayed on the screen. The source code includes such a backward slash, but it is not doubled. To wit: ---------- ignored (useful for adding comments). A \ at the end of a line ---------- is one of the source lines in this file. It should read ---------- ignored (useful for adding comments). A \\ at the end of a line ---------- Since the backward slash is not doubled, the man page displays as ---------- ... A at the end of a line ... ---------- instead of ---------- ... A \ at the end of a line ... ---------- This drove me crazy! I knew there was a continuation character. I just couldn't remember what it was. And when I looked at the man page it wouldn't tell me! I thought it was a font problem at first. I tried every font installed on my system trying to find out what that pesky continuation character was. Finally, when I looked directly at the source code, I realized what the problem was. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
