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Re: man pages are littered with .ft C and others

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2008, 09:59 UTC
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Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> writes:
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> I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
> used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
> backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
> wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
> in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
> this part of the manpage nightmare.

I checked this with 1.71, 1.69 and 1.72 (with DOCBOOK_XSL_172). It seems not to regress.

Applied to 'master'.  Thanks.
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  1. Adam FlottFeb 2, 2008
  2. Geert BoschFeb 2, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 2, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 3, 2008
  6. Jonas FonsecaFeb 4, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2008
  8. Jonas FonsecaFeb 5, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2008

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