Package: docbook-xsl Version: 1.68.1-0.1 If I nest a replaceable tag inside a filename tag in a manpage, it appears that the XSL stylesheets generate a "start italic" tag for each of the two start tags, and an "end italic" for each of the two end tags. Since troff doesn't have a stack of styles, this results in the italic text being terminated too soon, like this:
[start italics]/non/replaceable/stuff<foo>[end italics]/more/non/replaceable More concretely, the last section of aptitude's manpage (in SVN) is: <refsect1> <title>See Also</title> <para> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>apt-get</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>apt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <filename>/usr/share/doc/aptitude/<replaceable>lang</replaceable>/html/index.html</filename> from the package aptitude-doc-<replaceable>lang</replaceable> </para> </refsect1> In the generated manpage, this renders as follows: .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBapt\-get\fR(8), \fBapt\fR(8), \fI/usr/share/doc/aptitude/\fI<lang>\fR/html/index\&.html\fR from the package aptitude\-doc\-\fI<lang>\fR Here \fI<lang>\fR should be just <lang>, since the surrounding text is already italic. Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | Hi, I'm a .signature virus! | | Copy me into your .signature to help me spread! | \---------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ---------------/
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