Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > fvwm-workers@fvwm.org wrote:
> > > Changes by: dane 01/07/03 21:04:15
> > > Modified files:
> > > fvwm2.html
> >
> > Looks like you have the same problem formatting fvwm man pages as I do.
> > >From the fvwm2.html:
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >
> > fvwm2 [-blackout] [-clientId id] [-cmd config_command] [-d
> > displayname
>
> I got the same result on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. Only my Linux
> machine would generate a SYNOPSIS more than one line long.
>
> I fixed the web pages, but that leaves us with a man page that still
> don't display right on at least 3 major OSs.
On Solaris in man(5) there is this:
Any text argument t may be zero to six words.
In this case,
"t" is in the man macro:
.BI t
There are lots of places in the fvwm2 man page where .BI is
used with more than 6 arguments.
Our man pages used to deal with this is \fI, \fB, etc.
The comment at the beginning of the fvwm2 man page contains:
.\" Formating instructions for the fvwm man page:
.\"
.\" - Do not use \f... formatting instructions.
.\" - Avoid single and double quotes wherever possible.
.\"
.\" For further details, please refer to the Linux Man-Page how-to.
This seems to be a bad idea.
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