[sane-devel] problems in one or more man pages you maintain

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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:12:54 -0400


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Problems with sane-coolscan2.5:

1. Dot or single-quote at start of line turns it into a garbage command.
This is a serious error; some lines of your page get silently lost
when it is formatted.

--- sane-coolscan2.5-orig	2004-02-15 17:11:00.000000000 -0500
+++ sane-coolscan2.5	2004-02-15 17:11:11.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 sane-coolscan2 \- SANE backend for Nikon Coolscan film scanners
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
-.sane-coolscan2
+.B sane-coolscan2
 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that
 provides access to Nikon Coolscan film scanners.  Some functions of this 
 backend should be considered
Problems with sane-microtek2.5:

1. Section or macro out of place; this confuses translators.

--- sane-microtek2.5-orig	2004-02-15 17:12:10.000000000 -0500
+++ sane-microtek2.5	2004-02-15 17:12:32.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-. .IX sane-microtek2
 ." Process this file with
 ." man -l sane-microtek2.man
 .TH sane-microtek2 5 "28 Jan 2002" "sane-backends 1.0.12" "SANE Scanner Access Now Easy"

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                             Eric S. Raymond