Re: dar man page and -aa feature

On Monday 19 March 2007 19:28, Denis Corbin wrote:
> Yes it is, man page is the source code.
> 
> nroff formatting is not that complicated in fact...
> formating is done by line beginning with a dot '.'
> then you have different directives
> .P for a new paragraph
> 
> .RS / .RE increment the text they enclose
> 
> .TP <num>
> <text>
> <description>
> 
> provide the <description> for the given <text> (used for options)
> description beging indented by <num> characters.
> 
> .B bolds the next line.
> 
> There is no need to take care of carriage return, this is done
> automatically.
> 
> Well, there are some similarities with LaTeX and HTML...

(If you haven't seen the two patches I submitted to the tracker yet, have a
look :) )

I already noticed a limitation with the formatting. I wanted to have a comma
right after a bold word, but doing:

.B cars
, are used to drive in

The output was "cars , are used to drive in". Is there a way to get rid of the
space between "cars" and the comma?


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