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Subject: Text disappears with . or ' at start of line in SGML source
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Package: docbook-to-man
Version: 1:2.0.0-9
Severity: normal
When . or ' is the first PCDATA character on a line in the SGML source
(i.e. there may be markup in front of it), then the whole line
disappears from the output manpage.
Example SGML:
<!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>foo</refname>
<refpurpose>bar</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>foo</title>
<para>Blah
'this whole stuff is swallowed
foo
<emphasis>.same</emphasis> for this - just need ' or . at line start
bar</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
Generated output:
() ()
NAME
foo -- bar
foo
Blah foo bar
()
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux elessar 2.2.19 #1 Mon May 21 19:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages docbook-to-man depends on:
ii docbook 4.1-4 SGML DTD for software documentatio
ii docbook-dsssl [docbook-st 1.71-1 Modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii libc6 2.2.4-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-18 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
Also:
ii man-db 2.3.19-5 Display the on-line manual.
ii groff 1.17-3 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.17-3 GNU troff text-formatting system
(base system componen
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:29 +0200 (CEST)
From: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Escaping characters and collapsing of white space
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You should invoke docbook-to-man with INSTANT_OPT set to a space if you
want to use some special characters literally in your SGML file. This also
takes care of collapsing white space into one space.
INSTANT_OPT=" " docbook-to-man src.sgml > dst.1
Kind regards
Luk
PS: Maybe I should emphasize it more in the manpage?
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