[MPlayer-DOCS] Polish manpage

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Sep 15 02:32:25 CEST 2004


Torinthiel writes:
> Now there is something really strange happening.
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1.txt
> I thought it was OK, but now it definitely is not, as this is the whole
> file on my side:
> MPlayer(1)              Odtwarzacz film
> There is something more, trust me ;) Conversion somehow failed or what?

There is something strange going on with the col utility on mphq.  I'm
investigating, but I don't really understand it yet.

> And the HTML version still has ugly &entities; Yes, I know, it should be
> fixed somehow, and so on. Paszczi talked with groff's people, they said
> that
> groff -Thtml -mlatin2 -man mplayer.1 > mplayer.html
> should work. But, both on my box (groff 1.18) and Paszczi's (groff
> 1.19) it does not.
> 
> On my it looks like it's working. Unfortunately one of the inner
> threads exits, and outer ones don't notice it and wait for it's output.
> Only kill works.

same here

> So I don't know how to do it, and strongly encourage putting the sed
> script I've sent once to work (I can resend it if it's hard to find).
> Especially as I've received user feedback, that our translation work is
> being wasted, as manpage as it is now is unreadable.

Please send me the sed script in private, I'm not sure if I still have
it.

Sorry for not reacting earlier.

Diego




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