On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:12:45PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:09:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Ideally, there would be a man-page specific Diversion that would
> > define that section and could have in it the stuff catman needs,
> > i.e.:
> > foo \- build foo files
> 
> While looking for this, I noticed that the only "standard" dash in
> this position is really \-, that is, the minus sign.  (Why this is
> so, beats me, because the line is not a mathematical expression.)
> So it seems that I will have to build some support for man NAME
> description lines after all, because stx2any does not have
> standard support for minus signs in man (or any other format, for
> that matter).
> 
> However, I will still do this in a way that does not decrease the
> usability of -Tman output for other purposes.  So it will probably
> be a w_manheader macro or something like that.

That's totally fine by me, as long as it's documented somewhere.
Thanks!

-Robin


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