Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:26:21 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to write a man page Message-ID: <20010528102621.C32649@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <006901c0e5d7$13e862e0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>; from simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:29:07PM %2B0400 References: <20010526110004.A1566@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010526143933.F50715@sunbay.com> <006901c0e5d7$13e862e0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>
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On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:29:07PM +0400, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > BTW how to output ' or \ character in manual page placed in > /usr/local/man/RU_SU.KOI8-R? In manual pages placed > in /usr/local/man sequence \' and \\ works, but in .../RU_SU.KOI8-R > ' and \ character are ignored. > > Is it a bug? Or I do something wrong? > \' escape is the acute accent; same as \(aa. To get an apostrophe, use ' or \&' (if to be used as the first character on the string). See groff(7) for details. \\ and \e escapes did not work due to the bug in devkoi8-r/R.proto I introduced in revision 1.4. Fixed in: gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devkoi8-r/R.proto,v 1.5 (-CURRENT) gnu/usr.bin/groff/font/devkoi8-r/R.proto,v 1.4.2.2 (-STABLE) Thanks for the report! Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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