Re: dar man page and -aa feature

Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> 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 get notified of changes/additions of trackers (patch/Feature
requests/bug report), but could not yet find the time to examin your
submission... nothing is lost :-)

> 
> 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?
> 

I don't know, I also met some limitations once or twice since I started
man pages for dar (I don't remember which ones) which I solved by
reformulating the sentence... :-/


Regards,
Denis.

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