Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add gitmodules(5)

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 13, 2007, 16:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706130959i7a2ac14dq723137d05ff14de1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070613163136.GA28101@moooo.ath.cx>

On 6/13/07, Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> wrote:

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> Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you please try one or both of the following escape-sequences?
> >
> > \.gitmodules
> > #.gitmodules#
>
> #.gitmodules# seems to produce a good xml file, html is fine too.  But
> the conversion from xml to a manpage seems to be broken:
>
>     $ xmlto -m callouts.xsl man gitmodules.xml
>
> transforms
>
>     <refsynopsisdiv>
>     <simpara>.gitmodules</simpara>
>
>     </refsynopsisdiv>
>
> to
>
>     .SH "SYNOPSIS"
>     .gitmodules
>
> ".gitmodules" is not shown in the manpage and vim highlights the ".gi"
> just like ".SH" in a special color.  Perhaps we should just highlight
> .gitmodules like commands with single quotes.  This solves both
> problems :)
>

Ok, thanks for trying to clean up my mess. I guess there's a good reason why Junios examples drop the leading dot (cat /usr/share/man/man1/git-submodule.1 was an eyeopener for me right now ;-)

-- 
larsh