From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: carl@bordum.dk, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb docs: do not format the ++ in C++ in man page
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336gvw0k4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d725d34-8367-c875-2528-662605295645@simark.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:36:51 -0400)
> Cc: carl@bordum.dk, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:36:51 -0400
>
> > I agree, but I'm also confused about the problem. If I go to that
> > page, I don't see @t there, and looking at the page source reveals
> > that C@t{++} has been correctly converted to C<tt>++</tt>. So I'm not
> > sure why Carl sees something different.
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> We are talking about the actual man page, as viewed with "man". The HTML (or info) version is rendered fine.
>
> I can view it by doing:
>
> 1. `cd gdb/doc` in the build directory
> 2. `make man`
> 3. `man -l gdb.1`
Ah, OK. I do see @t{++} in the man page. I was confused by the
reference to the HTML page and by patches posted that seemed to only
affect HTML.
So back to the topic: I do agree that the conversion tool should be
taught about @t.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-16 21:47 Carl Bordum Hansen
2019-09-17 1:19 ` Simon Marchi
2019-09-17 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-17 12:36 ` Simon Marchi
2019-09-17 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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