Hello Marc, Am Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 07:05:23PM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 05:35:08PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Am Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 03:40:14PM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > I found in man(7) that there is even a dedicated macro for manpage > cross-references, .MR. How much of your work would I destroy by going > through the manpages and replacing every occurence of \fBsomething(8)\fR > os to by > .MR 8 something
It is probably the other way round, see the source for groff.1
.MR something 8
This seems to be the future, groff already changed, Linux man pages is
still fixing some problems before the change. Technically, it should
work in in Testing, groff(1) has some macro for systems which do not
yet support this. (Probably irrelevant for you).
Fro translators this would be a PITA, as this would require lots of
tedious updates. If you want to be kind to translators (or me, who
intends to ease work for other translators), then make it a two step
process:
First, apply all changes. I'll run the call for updates. Afterwards,
when the updates are in, make one commit, changing all
\fBsomething(8)\fR to .MR 8 something
Then semi automatically update all translations which are 100%. The
others are out of luck (or you could update all cases, but then you
cannot remove the ,fuzzy flag, as you don't know if the translation is
current otherwiese).
> > > > #: ../deluser.8:271
> > > > Issue: B<adduser> → B<adduser>(8)
> > > > Issue: adduser(8) → B<adduser>(8)
> > >
> > > (8) see above. .B applied (using \fR and \fB is there a difference to
> > > useing .B?
> >
> > Beats me, to be honest.
>
> Then I preferred to use the same construct that is in use in that part
> of the manpage
Its all about the meaing/formatting from my side, not the actual groff
markup code.
Greetings
Helge
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