Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:21:52 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: "'freebsd-doc@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: &man question Message-ID: <20020227142152.B56195@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <20020227144808.A359@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B43830@mailserv.xpert.com> <20020227144808.A359@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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Hoi, On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:30:27PM +0200, Yonatan Bokovza wrote: > > &man.something.1 works. Why doesn't > > &man.some_thing.1 works? > > Uhm.. because &man.some_thing.1 is not defined as an entity? > See doc/share/sgml/man-refs.ent for the defined entities. which reminds me that I need to re-run makemanent (ports/fdp-tools) one of these days and fill in all the entities that are missing. > it just might be that an underscore is an illegal character > for entity names. That's exactly the reason why we have &man.pkg.create.1; and not the more logical &man.pkg_create.1;. Underscores are not allowed in an entity names. The characters + and [ are also illegal, given us entities like &man.c...1; for c++. > I doubt that, however; Just try it - open man-refs.ent, define &man.pkg_create.1;, use it in an .sgml file, and watch the system hurl. /s/Udo -- "Ich kann rennen wie ein Hirsch!" "Zustoßen wie ein Stier!" "Kämpfen wie ein Löwe!" "Wer sagte 'Saufen wie ein Kamel?'" - Hägar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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