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Re: strftime man page is garbled
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:03:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: strftime man page is garbled
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On 6/4/2015 4:34 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 04/06/2015 14:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: Marco Atzeri
It might well be that starting a line with ' is not valid troff markup.
You are right
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Basics.html#Basics
"Not all input lines are text to be formatted. Some input lines are
requests that describe how to format the text. Requests always have a
period (â.â) or an apostrophe (â'â) as the first character of the input
line. "
I guess we need to patch upstream...
Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated
from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1])
or check the script
I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have
man-pages-posix
[1] https://github.com/jon-turney/cygwin/commit/f957adfea38022bd3ab076ca77871b53be0ef654
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