[Sorry to quote it all, not everyone keeps July threads.]
On 10 Jul 2001 18:57:07 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:48:17PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > On 21 Jul 2001 19:26:09 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > >
> > > The recent fixes in the man page for Solaris etc. (\f...) broke
> > > the bold typeface of the reformatted sections. For example:
> > >
> > > .TP
> > > .BI "Menu " menu-name " [ " position " ] [ " double-click-action " ]"
> > >
> > > was changed to
> > >
> > > .IP "Menu \fImenu-name\fP [ \fIposition\fP ] [
> > > \fIdouble-click-action\fP ]"
> > >
> > > The "Menu", "[" and "]" parts of the old version are bold while
> > > they are not in the new one. Of course this can be fixed by
> > > adding more \fB...\fP pairs, but I'd *really* prefer to find a way
> > > to do that without \f... Isn't there a way to split the .BI lines
> > > into several? Any ideas are welcome.
> >
> > I suggest the following style for all commands:
> >
> > .B "Menu "
> > .I menu-name
> > .BI "[ " position " ]"
> > .BI "[ " double-click-action " ]"
> >
> > .B Popup
> > .I popup-name
> > .BI "[ " position " ]"
> > .BI "[ " default-action " ]"
> >
> > I.e. use .B for command, .I for mandatory parameters, .BI for optional.
> > I also think, the spaces in braces are not really needed: .BI [ position ]
>
> Looks good to me. The only thing I don't get working is the
> indentation of the text paragraphs:
>
> .TP
> .B "Menu "
> .I menu-name
> .BI "[ " position " ]"
> bla blub
>
> results in
>
> Menu menu-name [ position ] bla blub
>
> and
>
> .TP
> .B "Menu "
> .I menu-name
> .BI "[ " position " ]"
>
> bla blub
>
> gives me
>
> Menu menu-name [ position ] bla blub
>
> bla blub
>
> but we want
>
> Menu menu-name [ position ] bla blub
> bla blub
My own conclusion in July was we should write our own macro instead of
.TP, but looking at /usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.an where .de TP is defined
gave me headache. This is learnable for sure, but may be someone else
is already familar with this hieroglyphic language?
And I am still sure we don't need spaces (remember, braces are in bold
or even in different color), i.e. I prefer this bold-inverse output:
Menu menu-name [position] [double-click-action]
bla blub
Regards,
Mikhael.
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