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Re: Problem when formatting man pages (gcc.1) on 3_0
- To: Stephane Carrez <Stephane dot Carrez at worldnet dot fr>
- Subject: Re: Problem when formatting man pages (gcc.1) on 3_0
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:10:50 +0100 (BST)
- cc: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Stephane Carrez wrote:
> I've found a problem with the man pages generated by texi2pod+pod2man.
> When the man page is formatted with groff to produce an HTML page,
> the bold items are wrong: each bold letter is repeated twice. This makes
> the HTML man page unreadable. {I'm using: groff -Thtml -P-g -man gcc.1}.
The intended use of the manpages generated through texi2pod is for viewing
with "man" only, since users have clearly shown that they do want a proper
manpage for viewing this way. For printing or HTML you should go directly
from the Texinfo sources (with texi2dvi, and makeinfo --html (preferably
with texinfo 4.0b, to support non-monolithic output) or texi2html).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk