Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:50:13 GMT From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/67554: man-cgi visual glitch on 3-word titles Message-ID: <200406271950.i5RJoDT6088451@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/67554; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: www/67554: man-cgi visual glitch on 3-word titles Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:42:51 +0200 --L+ofChggJdETEG3Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.06.03 22:46:41 -0400, Chris Pepper wrote: > > Three-word titles, like "INTRODUCTION TO USB" in > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dusb&sektion=3D4&manpath=3DFree= BSD+4.10-RELEASE > & PRINCIPLES of OPERATION in > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dpolling&sektion=3D4&manpath=3D= FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE > are inconsistently displayed. > > In the USB web page, " USB" is not blue underlined to match > "INTRODUCTION TO", which is. In the source, the b & a close tags are > after OF, rather than OPERATION. > > In the polling web page, " OPERATION" is not blue underined, while > "PRINCIPLES OF" is. Interestingly, "Principles of Operation" is > mixed-case and indented one level in the man command itself, while its > boldface and flush left on the web. > > Presumably this is a problem with man.cgi, although I suppose it > could be triggered by odd markup in the source. I just had a quick look at the source code for man.cgi. It parses the output from man(1) and does so using perl at it's best/worst with a lot of regular expressions, so fixing this isn't simple. I just cc'ed Wolfram Schneider who is the original author of man.cgi and unless he has a quick fix I wouldn't count on this problem being fixed any time soon - it's just too much black perl magic :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --L+ofChggJdETEG3Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA3yM7h9pcDSc1mlERAgQIAKCTBGs8qFFhyMim8Mc8ngKxAH2SkQCdGsfh g/UNrpQkojZXXMGN4LkEuSA= =AmYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --L+ofChggJdETEG3Y--
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