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Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc

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AFAlejandro Riveira Fernández <ariveira@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2010, 17:47 UTC
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:15:16 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> 
> This is in my opinion a bug: unless you use ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF, git's
> asciidoc.conf will include raw roff directives in the docbook markup it
> generates.  And then docbook will escape the periods, producing the
> output you see.
> 
> The workaround is very simple: set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF to nonempty when you
> build documentation.
 I use make quick-install-man which, afaik, installs man pages 
"prerendered" from the man branch and i see the same artifact.
 
 So can those man pages be rendered with this workaraound?
 
 Thanks
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
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