On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 February 2014 07:50, Gene Cumm <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the Name line ("command - description here"), can the font of 1+ >> words be adjusted to strong? I've tried it and not having luck. Is >> this a bug or a limitation of the manpage standard? > > It seems to be a limitation of the docbook-xsl, manually adding > emphasis to the name in the docbook still produced the same roff: > > .SH "NAME" > asciidoc \- converts an AsciiDoc text file to HTML or DocBook
asciidoc hello.txt -- hello.txt begin = hello(1) = :doctype: manpage == NAME == hello - hello *world* == SYNOPSIS == hello == Description == Say hello and greet the world -- hello.txt end This results in the '*' making it into the resulting HTML. removing the doctype line results in strong text. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer last time. > The content of the NAME section needs special (hardcoded) processing > to split it into names and purpose to go in the appropriate docbook > entities. To make this simpler, and presumably since the xsl doesn't > handle markup in names, no markup is handled in name and purpose > fields. Given the example, does this still apply? > I didn't examine if roff would handle it, if it was generated. Manually forcing a word to bold seems to work with man on my system. -- -Gene > So there are at least two roadblocks to marking up the name and purpose. > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> -- >> -Gene -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
