Oliver Kiddle – opk

Show:

What's happening?

  • Comment: manpage usage synopsis cut short: too many args to .BI

    I've attached some example XML source. With the more recent versions of docbook-xsl, I see that I can select K&R style for the synopsis which makes sense for Fortran. However, the problem occurs also with a C or C++ function synopsis. File Added: example.xml.

    11:04AM UTC on Feb 11 2009 in DocBook

  • Comment: manpage usage synopsis cut short: too many args to .BI

    I've just noticed that the solution to making the \c work on Solaris is to put it inside the double quotes. To adapt my patch, simply change the line: "\c . to: \c" ..

    04:39PM UTC on Feb 10 2009 in DocBook

  • Comment: man pages broken on Solaris

    I have tried the snapshot and the man pages do appear to be working again. Thanks. Angle brackets where was used are still gone but that's minor.

    04:21PM UTC on Feb 10 2009 in DocBook

  • manpage usage synopsis cut short: too many args to .BI

    In some man pages, the usage synopsis is being cut short with later parameters lost. This is because the .BI macro can only take up to 6 arguments. (see http://www.linux.com/feature/34212) The solution is to use multiple .BI lines with a \c at the end of all but the last line to avoid adding extra spaces. This \c doesn't actually appear to work on Solaris but a spurious space (before a comma...

    04:11PM UTC on Feb 10 2009 in DocBook

  • Comment: man pages broken on Solaris

    An alternative to finding a Solaris machine might be to try to Heirloom Documentation Tools on Linux (http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html). Otherwise, it isn't too hard to run OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. Unfortunately all the Solaris boxes I use are on a secure LAN so I can't offer you a login. I should warn you that I've got one more manpage bug that'll I'll be reporting on Monday. I...

    02:46PM UTC on Feb 07 2009 in DocBook

  • fix quoting of dots

    In a document I have, filename extensions are referenced using syntax such as .dat. In the generated manpage, this appears as: \fI\.dat\fR on it's own line. While this appears to work on Linux, on Solaris, this results in the man page being truncated. This is because the initial dot is being treated as introducing a macro despite the quoting. So this is an error in the...

    03:51PM UTC on Feb 06 2009 in DocBook

  • zsh

    opk committed patchset 8368 of module zsh to the zsh CVS repository, changing 2 files.

    12:59PM UTC on Nov 12 2008 in zsh

  • zsh

    opk committed 41ab0d8 of branch master to the zsh Git repository, changing 2 files.

    12:59PM UTC on Nov 12 2008 in zsh

  • zsh

    opk committed ccbe298 of branch master to the zsh Git repository, changing 2 files.

    12:57PM UTC on Nov 12 2008 in zsh

  • zsh

    opk committed patchset 8367 of module zsh to the zsh CVS repository, changing 2 files.

    12:57PM UTC on Nov 12 2008 in zsh

About Me

  • 03/29/2000 (9 years ago)
  • 22969
  • opk (My Site)
  • Oliver Kiddle

Send me a message