From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:35:03 GMT
Subject: Re: A typesetting problem with git man pages
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30810291235j554cc21dw4e3da4fdbfe633ee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87skqfus7v.fsf@iki.fi>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 20:16, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> 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