acute accent marks in man page
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bazaar |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Jelmer Vernooij | ||
bzr (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
|||
bzr (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: bzr Version: 1.0-1 Severity: minor
>
> The man page generated by the generate_docs.py tool tries to escape
> apostrophes with \. This doesn't work correctly with a current
> groff. \' is converted to an acute accent mark rather than an
> apostrophe.
>
> With groff, what you want is \(aq. Unfortunately, that's
> groff-specific and won't work with, for example, Solaris man.
>
> Pod::Man adds:
>
> .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq '
>
> to the preamble of the man page and then uses \*(Aq as the escape
> for apostrophes in the man page.
affects bzr
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://
iQCVAwUBSDliKgy
nxkj44O6gY9qXyU
LhRahYgSZVgHt4c
FY3yTAPhnGY=
=qrgA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Related branches
- Martin Packman (community): Approve
-
Diff: 36 lines (+7/-2)2 files modifiedbzrlib/doc_generate/autodoc_man.py (+5/-2)
doc/en/release-notes/bzr-2.6.txt (+2/-0)
Changed in bzr: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in bzr (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Re: [Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#458157: bzr: acute accent marks in man page + acute accent marks in man page |
tags: | added: manpage |
Changed in bzr (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in bzr (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in bzr: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in bzr: | |
milestone: | none → 2.6b1 |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in bzr (Debian): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Newer versions of groff happily support "\'"