git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: .ft tag in man

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jan 14, 2009, 10:11 UTC
Message-ID
<496DBA3D.9020502@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To
<20090114064510.GZ18365@inocybe.teonanacatl.org>

Todd Zullinger venit, vidit, dixit 14.01.2009 07:45: ...

Show 46 quoted lines
> I began seeing this on Fedora 10.  Defining DOCBOOK_XSL_172 fixed
> that issue, but seems to have caused another. :/
> 
> For example, in git-diff.1, without DOCBOOK_XSL_172, I see:
> 
>                .ft C
>                $ git diff            (1)
>                $ git diff --cached   (2)
>                $ git diff HEAD       (3)
>                .ft
> 
> With DOCBOOK_XSL_172, I get this:
> 
>                $ git diff            ▓fB(3)▓fR
>                $ git diff --cached   ▓fB(2)▓fR
>                $ git diff HEAD       ▓fB(3)▓fR
> 
> The '.ft' problem is gone, but '\fB' and '\fR' are replaced by '▓fB'
> and '▓fR', respectively.  The paragraphs that follow such a list of
> commands show more ugliness:
> 
>            ⌂sp ▓fB1. ▓fRChanges in the working tree not yet staged for the
>            next commit.  ⌂br ▓fB2. ▓fRChanges between the index and your
>            last commit; what you would be committing if you run "git commit"
>            without "-a" option.  ⌂br ▓fB3. ▓fRChanges in the working tree
>            since your last commit; what you would be committing if you run
>            "git commit -a" ⌂br
> 
> Defining ASCIIDOC8 seems to have no effect on this problem.
> 
>> Perhaps you are using different version of asciidoc/docbook/xmlto
>> toolchain?
> 
> On Fedora 10, these are the versions:
> 
> asciidoc-8.2.5-2.fc9
> docbook-dtds-1.0-41.fc10
> docbook-style-xsl-1.74.0-4.fc10
> xmlto-0.0.21-2.fc10
> 
> Fedora 9 has:
> 
> asciidoc-8.2.5-2.fc9
> docbook-dtds-1.0-38.fc9
> docbook-style-xsl-1.73.2-10.fc9
> xmlto-0.0.20-3.fc9

The problem can be seen even in the F10 release packages for git. Shame on them ;)

When I get back to my F9 box I'll try upgrading those packages one by one to their F10 versions (hoping dependencies don't connect all of them).

Michael
Previous: Todd Zullinger
Message 4 of 4 in “.ft tag in man”
  1. bill lamJan 14, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2009
  3. Todd ZullingerJan 14, 2009
  4. Michael J GruberJan 14, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.