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How to avoid using '\c' in man pages
From: |
Bjarni Ingi Gislason |
Subject: |
How to avoid using '\c' in man pages |
Date: |
Mon, 29 May 2023 19:15:32 +0000 |
For a background material see Debian bug #1036826 or
the home page of "Bug Reports" in Debian for the package "po4a".
For a three font case,
add a temporary roman font change in an argument,
that will say (including italic corrections)
"\/\fR" in front of the roman (upright) part and "\,\fP" after it.
An example from "groff_man.7"
.IR topic [\c
.BI , " another-topic"\c
.RB "].\|.\|.\& \e\- "\c
.I summary-description
(N.B. 'RB' is used for a pure roman font as an 'R' font macro does not
exist)
translates to
.IB topic\/\fR[\,\fP ", " "another-topic\/\fR].\|.\|.\& \e\-
\,\fPsummary-description"
or use '\' to break a long line into two physical lines
(one logical line)
.IB topic\/\fR[\,\fP ", " "another-topic\/\fR].\|.\|.\& \e\- \
\,\fPsummary-description"
The readability for humans suffers with such a change.
- How to avoid using '\c' in man pages,
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <=