On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:20:22AM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.8.4-6 > Followup-For: Bug #250877 > > Hi, > just stumbled over this bug too. I don't know nroff but I tried to > apply to Pod::Man the suggestion given in groff-base README.Debian file > (cc Colin Watson) in the hope that VB scopes the char directive. Visual > inspection of manpages created with the patch confirm my hope. Minus in > verbatim are now minus and when a word is broken to next line a hyphen > is used.
I think "-" in the source text will still have the wrong hyphenation semantics even with this patch. It would be better to make pod2man spit out "\-" explicitly, if possible. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
