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From: Amin <raihan@citech-bd.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: man page formatting problem?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:16:01 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362.1053508561@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

Hi,

I've noticed this about man pages displayed in an X terminal
application such as xterm, etc. --- the dashes (hyphens) and
quotation marks don't show up (in xterm), and when they do
(in Konsole), it's sporadic --- some show, and others show
up as weird-looking characters.

I think this is a problem with GNU nroff, which formats the
man pages, but I don't know where to go from there.  This
hasn't been a problem for me until recently, because I've
just started copying examples from man pages.

I was hoping someone here could give me a couple of
pointers.

Thanks,
Yawar Amin
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-21  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-21  9:16 Amin [this message]
2003-05-22 12:35 ` man page formatting problem? Stephen Samuel
2003-05-22 17:29   ` Amin

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