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Re: HTML help files are broken

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Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2010, 16:17 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Some of the HTML manual files produced on my machine (Ubuntu 10.04)
> from the git source are broken: in git-help.html, I get the following
> for the link to the git-web--browse manual page:
>
> <a href="git-web&#8212;browse.html">git-web&#8212;browse(1)</a>
>
> where the &#8212; (en-dash) replaces the "--" (dash-dash) that is on
> the filesystem.  How does one fix it, so that the line above would be
>
> <a href="git-web--browse.html">git-web--browse(1)</a>?
>
> The command line I am using is a simple
>
> make doc.

I neglected to mention here that the perl version is 5.10.1 and asciidoc version is 8.5.2

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>
> I checked the git repository origin/html, and the correct link is
> produced there, so something in my configuration is messed up.
>
> Nathan Panike
>
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  4. Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDocJunio C Hamano, Aug 23, 2010

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