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Re: A typesetting problem with git man pages

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Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
Oct 29, 2008, 19:35 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 20:16, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
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> Does anybody know why "man" prints those ".ft" commands? The
> corresponding code in git-log.1 file is this:
>
>    \&.ft C
>    [i18n]
>            commitencoding = ISO\-8859\-1
>    \&.ft
>
> Recently I upgraded my system from Debian 4.0 (Etch) to 5.0 (Lenny) and
> it is possible that some tools which are related to compiling the man
> pages are now newer versions.

I had a similar problem after upgrading on Ubuntu and came up with a patch to optionally disable some of asciidoc.conf (commit 7f55cf451c9e7). Try putting DOCBOOK_XSL_172=Yes in your config.mak.

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Jonas Fonseca
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  1. Teemu LikonenOct 29, 2008
  2. Jonas FonsecaOct 29, 2008
  3. Teemu LikonenOct 29, 2008
  4. asciidoc: add minor workaround to add an empty line after code blocksJonas Fonseca, Oct 30, 2008
  5. Teemu LikonenOct 30, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2008
  7. Thomas AdamNov 1, 2008
  8. Kalle Olavi NiemitaloNov 3, 2008
  9. Teemu LikonenOct 31, 2008
  10. Teemu LikonenOct 31, 2008
  11. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  12. Jonas FonsecaOct 29, 2008

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