From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 14:58:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08437 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08412 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA27515; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:55:08 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05662; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:55:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA19920; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:42:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610222142.XAA19920@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: getopt(1) man page woodoo To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:42:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <96Oct22.141020pdt.177529@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Oct 22, 96 02:10:14 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > I can't get FreeBSD's nroff -man to print bold dashes at all; > > .B -- > .B \-\- > .B \&-\&- > .B \& -- > > all produce nothing. I've also noticed it now. Anyway, the .B's are ugly anyway (and i think mdoc(5) mentions that only very few direct troff requests are safe inside the mdoc package). I've replaced them by .Ql's which makes their emphasize much clearer. The getopt(1) man page suffered from some other idiosyncrasies, e.g. the usage of .Op where it should have been .Ar or .Fl. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)