[email protected] wrote: > One possibility I see would be omitting the three options in the > manpage as it suffices to find them additional documention which is > delivered with the programm, i.e. MANUAL.html and README-files - which > would need to a revision as well, by the way.
Actually I was just looking at the main README (datestamped only a couple of years ago) and wondering what it means by # * You can change URL description like 'http://hogege.net' in plain text # into link to that URL. Is that talking about "-o mark_all_pages=1" AKA "Treat URL-like strings as links in all pages"? For me it has no apparent effect; if we could work it out, it would be worth a mention in EXAMPLES (and if not, it's one for reportbug). [...] > a possible target would be > > nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.os.linux.networking Yes, that's the server I was using to check the newsgroup really existed, now that news.demon.co.uk is gone! >> What happened to the URL there? (Checks) Oh, it doesn't wrap it in >> <plain ASCII angles>, it uses exotic ???mathematical ones???! > > These exotic parenthesis are a product of the groff-man-module and > they are triggered by .UR. Shall I return to elements within the plain > ascii character set? "zgrep '\.UR' /usr/share/man/man*/*.gz" shows plenty of other respectable man pages using it (often for email addresses too). I was just surprised groff would bother for something like this when it's quite happy to use ASCII apostrophes and so on. I should perhaps also have highlighted the way groff handles quotes: apparently on your system it respects the locale and renders \(lq \(rq as « » rather than as “ ”. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
