Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> .IX is probably from pod2man, which does:
> .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr
> for
> .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
> .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
> .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
> .if \nF \{\
> . de IX
> . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
> ..
> . nr % 0
> . rr F
> .\}
> Russ, perhaps this should be something like this instead to suppress the
> warning?
> .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr
> for
> .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
> .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
> .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
> .ie \nF \{\
> . de IX
> . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
> ..
> . nr % 0
> . rr F
> .\}
> .el \{\
> . de IX
> ..
> .\}
Sure, that seems reasonable.
>> W: dpkg-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man
>> usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-architecture.1.gz 104: warning: `C`' not defined
> I'm not entirely sure what all this line noise is trying to achieve.
> Looks to me like stuff like \f(CW\*(C`\-c\*(C' should just be \-c;
It's intentional in general. I don't know why it's not defined, though.
\f(CW sets a fixed-width font, and \*(C` and \*(C' add "" when fonts
aren't supported but suppress the quotes when fonts are supported.
pod2man has done this for eons.
I haven't looked at this particular usage, but there are places where this
is exactly the desired markup.
Maybe there's some missing logic for defining empty strings?
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