[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/it mplayer.1,1.15,1.16

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue Sep 21 11:18:19 CEST 2004


Daniele Forghieri writes:
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> >
> >Modified Files:
> >	mplayer.1 
> >Log Message:
> >Roff interprets ' as markup, thus lines should never start with '.
> 
> It's not possible to escape the ', e.g. \' so is not important if it's 
> at the beginning or not of the line ?

Yes, it is.  I found it better to avoid the \', though.  IIRC there
were some obscure problems.

> I ask the question because I start a very simple program to format the 
> man page to have all at a maximum coloumn of  78 and it may happen to 
> have the ' at the begining of the line (the first time I saw this i 
> tough that there was a error in the program but this explain all).

Even then

grep "^'" * | sed /\'in/d

should quickly find all occurrences for you to fix.  A similar regexp
search in your editor should do as well.  Shouldn't take you more than
five minutes to fix by hand.

Diego




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