Hi Nicolas, Thanks for answering.
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:12:21 +0200 Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de> writes: > > > When exporting to a man page an underscore will be translated to > > nothing. > > > > Any idea what I could do? > > Because I know close to nothing about Groff, could you give an example > illustrating > > 1. what you wrote, > 2. what you expected to have in the ".man" file, > 3. what you actually got. > > Take this <--------------snip----------------> #+TITLE: mycmd * NAME mycmd - does very important things * SYNOPSIS mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a] * DESCRIPTION mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable MYCMD_OPT <--------------snap----------------> The man page looks like this: mycmd(1) General Commands Manual mycmd(1) NAME mycmd - does very important things SYNOPSIS mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a] DESCRIPTION mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable MYCMDOPT As you can see the _ (underscore) in MYCMD_OPT vanished. -- Manfred