# Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation

3 messages from 2009-04-24 to 2009-04-24. Participants: Ulrich Windl, Michael J Gruber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19041

## Ulrich Windl, 2009-04-24 11:22

Subject: Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation
Message-ID: <49F1BD06.32347.5FA078F@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
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Hello!

When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?

Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
slooks somewhat strange.

Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.

Regards,
Ulrich

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## Michael J Gruber, 2009-04-24 11:36

Subject: Re: Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation
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Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:22:
> Hello!
> 
> When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
> them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
> intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?

Do you mean line wrap by any chance ("Zeilenumbruch")? None of the
manual pages use hyphenation ("Silbentrennung").

> 
> Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
> an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
> slooks somewhat strange.

Which "archive" do you use? Where do you see the quote (if your system
displays a cech z)?

> 
> Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.

Which...

Michael

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## Ulrich Windl, 2009-04-24 12:35

Subject: Re: Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation
Message-ID: <49F1CE18.15665.63CB41A@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49F1CE18.15665.63CB41A%40Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de
In-Reply-To: <49F1A44A.1080008@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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On 24 Apr 2009 at 13:36, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:22:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
> > them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
> > intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?
> 
> Do you mean line wrap by any chance ("Zeilenumbruch")? None of the
> manual pages use hyphenation ("Silbentrennung").

Hi,

no, I meant what I write. Here "man bash" shows (the hypenation character is odd 
somehow):
-----snip---
DESCRIPTION
       Bash  is  an  sh-compatible  command language interpreter that executes
       commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also incor-
       porates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
-------snip------

So "incor-porates" is hyphenated, right. Maybe it's a default if groff somewhere.

> 
> > 
> > Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
> > an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
> > slooks somewhat strange.
> 
> Which "archive" do you use? Where do you see the quote (if your system
> displays a cech z)?

I don't have access to it right now, but I got it for git-1.6 from kernel.org 
about two weeks ago. I also cannot tell you where I saw that character, but it 
occurred many times; otherwise I wouldn't care.

> 
> > 
> > Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.
> 
> Which...

The same as the one above ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich

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