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Date: | Thu, 04 Jun 2015 15:34:40 +0100 |
From: | Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> |
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Subject: | Re: strftime man page is garbled |
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On 04/06/2015 14:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Marco Atzeri >> <snip> >> It looks a man-db issue, it misinterprets the ' at the begin >> of the phrase. >> >> Adding a single space before works fine. > > Perhaps preferred would be to highlight the name with .B: > > $ diff -u before after > --- before 2015-06-04 08:37:08.693623000 -0400 > +++ after 2015-06-04 08:47:17.078420500 -0400 > @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ > const struct tm *restrict TIMP); > > .SH DESCRIPTION > -'strftime' converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP) > +.B strftime > +converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP) > into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than > MAXSIZE characters. > It might well be that starting a line with ' is not valid troff markup. Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1]) I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have man-pages-posix [1] https://github.com/jon-turney/cygwin/commit/f957adfea38022bd3ab076ca77871b53be0ef654 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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