#14 [PATCH] svn 602: Improved manual page (rewritten)

[Jari Aalto]

The current manual page recordmydesktop/doc/recordmydesktop.1 could you a touch here and there. There are many ".br" command that should not be there because line widths varies from terminal to terminal etc.

There are 3 files attached:
1. How the original svn 602 looks like
2. How the corrected manual page looks like when corrected.
3. The rewritten manual page.
4. The patch, just in case it is of any use.

Changes are quite bug, so diff wouldn't be of any help:
- List options in alphabetical order
- Remove excessive bold, italic that light the document like a christmas tree.
- Use proper .SS subheading to group options.
- Define Vb, Ve macros for literal code
- Move top level section in order defined by the POSIX manual page standard:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap01.html#tag_01_11
- etc.

Please consider using this improved page.

Thanks,
Jari Aalto

[Jari Aalto]

Original manual page output

[Jari Aalto]

Output of corrected manual page

[Jari Aalto]

Corrected, new manual page

[Jari Aalto]

Corrected, new manual page. Patch against Svn 602

[Martin Nordholts]

Thanks for taking a look at this. I recently applied another patch I found to the new official GitHub project: https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop/commit/1cea3527e55c847af99d837f85c247ecad7b296c

So I'm afraid I have to close this as wont-fix. Feel free to create new Pull Requests against the new GitHub project if you can find more improvements though.