[xml/sgml-pkgs] Escape backslashes in the man pages

[Marco d'Itri]

Please advise. What should I use to build this document?

<!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
  <!ENTITY debian  "<productname>Debian GNU/Linux</productname>">
  <!ENTITY docbook "<productname>DocBook</productname>">
  <!ENTITY sgml    "<abbrev>SGML</abbrev>">
]>

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From: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.cz>
To: Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT>
Cc: mit-devel at lists.printk.net
Subject: Re: [Mit-devel] Escape backslashes in the man pages
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Marco d'Itri napsal(a):
> Escape backslashes in the man pages.
>
> --- a/doc/depmod.conf.sgml
> +++ b/doc/depmod.conf.sgml
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>      <para>
>        The format of <filename>depmod.conf</filename> and files under <filename>depmod.d</filename> is simple: one
>        command per line, with blank lines and lines starting with #
> -      ignored (useful for adding comments).  A \ at the end of a line
> +      ignored (useful for adding comments).  A \\ at the end of a line

Which conversion tool do you use to generate the manpages? docbook2man
from docbook-utils correctly escapes the backslashes and applying your
patch results in '\\\\' in the roff source.

Michal


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ciao,
Marco