Bug#380574: stx2any: man pages missing a bit of formatting.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:09:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Ideally, there would be a man-page specific Diversion that would define that section and could have in it the stuff catman needs, i.e.: foo \- build foo files While looking for this, I noticed that the only standard dash in this position is really \-, that is, the minus sign. (Why this is so, beats me, because the line is not a mathematical expression.) So it seems that I will have to build some support for man NAME description lines after all, because stx2any does not have standard support for minus signs in man (or any other format, for that matter). However, I will still do this in a way that does not decrease the usability of -Tman output for other purposes. So it will probably be a w_manheader macro or something like that. Panu -- personal contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +35841 5323835 technical contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/atehwa/ PGP fingerprint:0EA5 9D33 6590 FFD4 921C 5A5F BE85 08F1 3169 70EC Please consider membership of http://www.hospitalityclub.org/! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#380574: stx2any: man pages missing a bit of formatting.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:12:45PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:09:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Ideally, there would be a man-page specific Diversion that would define that section and could have in it the stuff catman needs, i.e.: foo \- build foo files While looking for this, I noticed that the only standard dash in this position is really \-, that is, the minus sign. (Why this is so, beats me, because the line is not a mathematical expression.) So it seems that I will have to build some support for man NAME description lines after all, because stx2any does not have standard support for minus signs in man (or any other format, for that matter). However, I will still do this in a way that does not decrease the usability of -Tman output for other purposes. So it will probably be a w_manheader macro or something like that. That's totally fine by me, as long as it's documented somewhere. Thanks! -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: Homonyms: Their Grate! Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#380574: stx2any: man pages missing a bit of formatting.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:09:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The man macros do not include .SH Name at the top, which means that we get errors like: mandb: warning: /usr/man/man3/mooix-long.scm.3: whatis parse for mooix-long.scm(3) failed Good point, but I never intended stx2any to include all man page specific form automatically. It would probably be nice to have .SH NAME in the template, but that would seriously cripple the usability of the man output for anything _else_ than man pages. I admit, though, that maybe it should be made clearer in the documentation that you have to put ! NAME and a properly formatted name line in the source. At the moment, all the documentation says (on the man page of stx2any) is: manproduces man macro output. This output is usable as a man page directly (of course, you should adhere to the ordi- nary man page conventions), or can be fed to troff / groff for formatting to e.g. postscript. Here ordinary man page conventions refers to normal man section headers, providing metadata such as the man section number and so on. I can clarify this in the next release. For an example of writing man pages with stx2any, please see the source for its own man page at /usr/share/doc/stx2any/stx2any.txt.gz. Panu -- personal contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +35841 5323835 technical contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/atehwa/ PGP fingerprint:0EA5 9D33 6590 FFD4 921C 5A5F BE85 08F1 3169 70EC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#380574: stx2any: man pages missing a bit of formatting.
Package: stx2any Version: 1.55-1 Severity: normal The man macros do not include .SH Name at the top, which means that we get errors like: mandb: warning: /usr/man/man3/mooix-long.scm.3: whatis parse for mooix-long.scm(3) failed Ideally, there would be a man-page specific Diversion that would define that section and could have in it the stuff catman needs, i.e.: foo \- build foo files -Robin -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-vserver Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages stx2any depends on: ii m41.4.4-1a macro processing language Versions of packages stx2any recommends: ii python2.3.5-11 An interactive high-level object-o ii tidy 20051018-1 HTML syntax checker and reformatte ii w3m 0.5.1-4WWW browsable pager with excellent -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
