[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#458157: Bug#458157: bzr: acute accent marks in man page

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Sun May 25 12:57:17 UTC 2008


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Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: bzr Version: 1.0-1 Severity: minor
>
> The man page generated by the generate_docs.py tool tries to escape
>  apostrophes with \.  This doesn't work correctly with a current
> groff. \' is converted to an acute accent mark rather than an
> apostrophe.
>
> With groff, what you want is \(aq.  Unfortunately, that's
> groff-specific and won't work with, for example, Solaris man.
>
> Pod::Man adds:
>
> .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el       .ds Aq '
>
> to the preamble of the man page and then uses \*(Aq as the escape
> for apostrophes in the man page.
  affects bzr
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