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Re: [PATCH] Force listingblocks to be monospaced in manpages

From
Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
Jul 19, 2007, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20070719122541.GA28414@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191239050.32611@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote Thu, Jul 19, 2007:
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> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > This is because AsciiDoc does the escaping. I think it would be cleaner
> > to do this thing when converting from DocBook to roff like we already
> > do for other things.
> 
> No.  Docbook does the escaping (as it says here: 
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/RELEASE-NOTES.html#V1.72.0
> ).
Oops, yes, you are right.
> I tried your approach first, but 1) I idn't want to copy that much 
> from the docbook xsl, as then we won't get updates/changes/fixes etc, 2) I 
> still had to use &#x2302; _anyway_.
OK, I didn't think you tried it. Nevermind then.
-- 
Jonas Fonseca
Previous: Julian Phillips
Message 16 of 16 in “Manpage rendering faults”
  1. Fredrik TolfJul 18, 2007
  2. Julian PhillipsJul 18, 2007
  3. Fredrik TolfJul 18, 2007
  4. Force listingblocks to be monospaced in manpagesJulian Phillips, Jul 18, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2007
  6. Julian PhillipsJul 19, 2007
  7. Force listingblocks to be monospaced in manpagesJulian Phillips, Jul 18, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2007
  9. Julian PhillipsJul 20, 2007
  10. Update listingblock monospace fix to support all docbook versionsJulian Phillips, Jul 20, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2007
  12. Brian GernhardtJul 20, 2007
  13. Julian PhillipsJul 20, 2007
  14. Force listingblocks to be monospaced in manpagesJonas Fonseca, Jul 19, 2007
  15. Julian PhillipsJul 19, 2007
  16. Jonas FonsecaJul 19, 2007

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