Interrogation about Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash

Interrogation about Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash

[David Prévot]

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Hi,

The 9f8e673e623d commit seems to brake stuff: “man man7/man.7” displays
the page until:

   Predefined Strings
       The man package has the following predefined strings:

I.e. the first occurrence of “.IP \\*R” seems to break the page.

Regards

David



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Re: Interrogation about Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash

[D. Barbier]

On 2012/9/26 David Prévot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 9f8e673e623d commit seems to brake stuff: “man man7/man.7” displays
> the page until:
>
>    Predefined Strings
>        The man package has the following predefined strings:
>
> I.e. the first occurrence of “.IP \\*R” seems to break the page.

Hello,

All lines beginning with a dot are affected (man5/core.5 looks weird):
 man3/isalpha.3
 man3/sysconf.3
 man5/core.5
 man5/proc.5
 man7/man.7
 man7/mdoc.7
 man7/mdoc.samples.7

Denis
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Re: Interrogation about Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:37 PM, D. Barbier <bouzim-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 2012/9/26 David Prévot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The 9f8e673e623d commit seems to brake stuff: “man man7/man.7” displays
>> the page until:
>>
>>    Predefined Strings
>>        The man package has the following predefined strings:
>>
>> I.e. the first occurrence of “.IP \\*R” seems to break the page.

I've applied 31a6818e3c72e0f9f0e67c0fbd90c1f899bee11d, which I think
reverts all the changes in the bad commit. Look okay now?

Thanks,

Michael


> Hello,
>
> All lines beginning with a dot are affected (man5/core.5 looks weird):
>  man3/isalpha.3
>  man3/sysconf.3
>  man5/core.5
>  man5/proc.5
>  man7/man.7
>  man7/mdoc.7
>  man7/mdoc.samples.7
>
> Denis



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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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Re: Interrogation about Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash

[D. Barbier]

On 2012/9/26 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:37 PM, D. Barbier wrote:
>> On 2012/9/26 David Prévot wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The 9f8e673e623d commit seems to brake stuff: “man man7/man.7” displays
>>> the page until:
>>>
>>>    Predefined Strings
>>>        The man package has the following predefined strings:
>>>
>>> I.e. the first occurrence of “.IP \\*R” seems to break the page.
>
> I've applied 31a6818e3c72e0f9f0e67c0fbd90c1f899bee11d, which I think
> reverts all the changes in the bad commit. Look okay now?

Perfect, thanks.

Denis
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