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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:54:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      brooks@one-eyed-alien.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/20028: ASCII docs should reflect <emphasis> tags in the source
Message-ID:  <200007190554.WAA12534@minya.sea.one-eyed-alien.net>

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>Number:         20028
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ASCII docs should reflect <emphasis> tags in the source
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 18 23:00:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brooks Davis
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

All versions of FreeBSD

>Description:

When the <emphasis> tag is used in DocBook, this is translated to a
variant on the <i> tag in HTML vi the style sheets.  The HTML docs are
then processed by w3m to produce ASCII versions.  w3m appears to
compleatly ignore <i> tags even in interative mode and it ignores both
<i> and <b> tags in -dump mode.  This means that no indication of
emphasis is transmitted to the ASCII form which potentialy distorts the
text's meaning.

>How-To-Repeat:

Create ASCII docs.

>Fix:

The fix is going to be something like patching w3m to have a mode where
it emphasises things like *this* or something.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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