On 27-Feb-01 at 18:50, Matthias Buelow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Alexander Mai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:37:12 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> >>It would be nice if the manual pages listed in the message below received
> >>a short description in the NAME section. Indeed, it would be even nicer
> >>if they received a description in the DESCRIPTION section as well :)
> >>--
> >
> >If I look e.g. in the source for
> >XmArrowButton (3) - (unknown)
> >
> >I see
> >
> >.TH XmArrowButton 3 "April 1998" "LessTif Project" "LessTif Manuals"
> >.SH NAME
> >XmArrowButton
> >.SH SYNOPSIS
> >.B #include <Xm/ArrowB.h>
> >.PP
> >.B XmArrowButton
> >.PP
> >.B XmCreateArrowButton
> >.SH DESCRIPTION
> >XmArrowButton
> >
> >What's wrong here?
>
> the particular makewhatis (or whatever) tool in question seems to
> depend on an emphasis hyphen or similar divider and further textual
> data thereafter in the NAME section, like in Motif manpages:
>
> .SH "NAME"
> \fBXmArrowButton\fP \(em The ArrowButton widget class
>
> I'd simply let some script run over the LessTif manpages which appends
> "\(em The XYZ widget class" in each NAME section to fix this.
Patch gracefully accepted......
>
> mkb
>
>
