On 06/18/2013 06:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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> 
> Problems with ln.1:
> 
> Parenthesized comments in command synopsis.  This is impossible
> to translate to DocBook.

So is this a limitation of docbook, troff or doclifter?
I'm unsure what to do here, but we can't just remove the comments.

> Problems with test.1:
> 
> (Identical patches should apply to: [.1)

The reason for the non symmetry is documented in the source.

thanks,
Pádraig.



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