On 2015-12-27 Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-12-26 at 18:53 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > I do not know on how to improve on that. Feel free to close this > > bug-report.
> I think the proper way would be to use some formatting to differ > between terminal and non-terminal symbols. > E.g. Underlining any non-terminal symbols. Underlined square brackets do not render very well but it is an improvement. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 297939a..64f9e13 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ <para>The format for two one-line-style entries using the <literal>deb</literal> and <literal>deb-src</literal> types is:</para> - <literallayout>deb [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...] -deb-src [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...]</literallayout> + <literallayout>deb [ <emphasis>[</emphasis>option1=value1 option2=value2<emphasis>]</emphasis> ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...] +deb-src [ <emphasis>[</emphasis>option1=value1 option2=value2<emphasis>]</emphasis> ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...]</literallayout> <para>Alternatively the equivalent entry in deb822 style looks like this: <literallayout>