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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 07:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3azj1rva.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070719014852.4573.65336.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:

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> In order for these roff commands to get through to the manpage they
> have to be element encoded to prevent quoting.  In particular with
> docbook xsl 1.72.0 and newer we have to use U+2302 instead of . to
> prevent the roff command being escaped.  We also add a small perl
> script for docbook < 1.72.0.

This does not work at all for docbook 1.71. I get "^<TAB>ft C" as output from xmlto.