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

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 07:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707200806540.20056@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v3azj1rva.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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

Oh, well ... that's handy? :S

I've just checked, and I do have a machine with docbook < 1.72, so I'll see if I can get something working on both. Probably early next week since I'm away this weekend.

-- 
Julian

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