On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:46 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > This is text intended for the user to read, not the shell > > interpreter. > > Yes, that's why there are backslashes, so the interpreter doesn't > replace them when displaying the help text. > > For example the user is told they can set an environment variable > called "LIBDIR" to specify where to install libraries. FONTPATH uses > the defined LIBDIR so to specify the FONTPATH the usage is currently > described as: > > FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: $PREFIX/$LIBDIR...) > > If you remove the backslashes the user will be informed that: > > FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: /...) > > if neither $PREFIX nor $LIBDIR are set. In this case it's not clear to > the user that the FONTPATH is being built using the predefined PREFIX > and LIBDIR variables.
Thanks I should have seen this.
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