[MPlayer-dev-eng] manpage

Jonas Jermann jjermann at gmx.net
Fri Mar 28 06:31:35 CET 2003


On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:12:45PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:25:57PM +0100, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:00:47AM +0100, gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> > > Why the hell is the "/" character written as "/\:" ??
> > It's about automatic line break afaik...
> > 
> > > And the "-" prefixed like "\-" ?
> > It differs, "\-" is used for ranges "-" between words....
> > 
> > Just RTFM off (g)roff/man/etc... ;)
> > Anyway, afair the manpage will be written in xml anyway... ;))
> 
> How will this be handled in the cvs build procedure. I seriously doubt
> most users (or even developers) care to have silly xml tools installed
> to generate the manpage, but the manpage is required by the install
> target... So, do we include a generated man page in cvs? Or just omit
> installing man page if the tools are missing? This seems like an RTFM
> nightmare....

The xml man page version was not my idea... ;)
But maybe one could argue that it is a question of priority...

Regards
    Jonas



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