[MPlayer-dev-eng] manpage

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Mar 29 12:57:00 CET 2003


D Richard Felker III writes:
 > 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....

We'll worry about that if and when the time to convert the man page to
XML comes.  For the moment we have to see how well XML turns out to be
for the HTML docs.

Diego



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