Package: docbook-xsl Version: 1.68.1-0.1 If I nest a replaceable tag inside a filename tag in a manpage, it appears that the XSL stylesheets generate a "start italic" tag for each of the two start tags, and an "end italic" for each of the two end tags. Since troff doesn't have a stack of styles, this results in the italic text being terminated too soon, like this:
[start italics]/non/replaceable/stuff<foo>[end italics]/more/non/replaceable
More concretely, the last section of aptitude's manpage (in SVN) is:
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>apt-get</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>apt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<filename>/usr/share/doc/aptitude/<replaceable>lang</replaceable>/html/index.html</filename>
from the package aptitude-doc-<replaceable>lang</replaceable>
</para>
</refsect1>
In the generated manpage, this renders as follows:
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBapt\-get\fR(8), \fBapt\fR(8),
\fI/usr/share/doc/aptitude/\fI<lang>\fR/html/index\&.html\fR from the package
aptitude\-doc\-\fI<lang>\fR
Here \fI<lang>\fR should be just <lang>, since the surrounding text is
already italic.
Daniel
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