I am using the docbook-to-man package a bad idea? ----- Forwarded message from md -----
To: pben...@uni-osnabrueck.de Cc: debian-xml-sgml-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Escape backslashes in the man pages User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Please advise. What should I use to build this document? <!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [ <!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian GNU/Linux</productname>"> <!ENTITY docbook "<productname>DocBook</productname>"> <!ENTITY sgml "<abbrev>SGML</abbrev>"> ]> ----- Forwarded message from Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz> ----- From: Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz> To: Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> Cc: mit-de...@lists.printk.net Subject: Re: [Mit-devel] Escape backslashes in the man pages User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) Marco d'Itri napsal(a): > Escape backslashes in the man pages. > > --- a/doc/depmod.conf.sgml > +++ b/doc/depmod.conf.sgml > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ > <para> > The format of <filename>depmod.conf</filename> and files under > <filename>depmod.d</filename> is simple: one > command per line, with blank lines and lines starting with # > - ignored (useful for adding comments). A \ at the end of a line > + ignored (useful for adding comments). A \\ at the end of a line Which conversion tool do you use to generate the manpages? docbook2man from docbook-utils correctly escapes the backslashes and applying your patch results in '\\\\' in the roff source. Michal _______________________________________________ Mit-devel mailing list mit-de...@dmesg2.printk.net http://dmesg2.printk.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mit-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ciao, Marco ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org