Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I've described the two extensions I think would be merited. The sort
> > of good-practice guidelines I nean are things like "don't use troff
> > requests outside the safe set" and "don't put running-text notes in a
> > synopsis section" and "don't write multiple description lines".
>
> Multiple description lines?
I'm talking about name sections like this:
NAME
bzip2, bunzip2 - a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.3
bzcat - decompresses files to stdout
bzip2recover - recovers data from damaged bzip2 files
This is perfectly legitimate as troff, but the DocBook DTD only allows
one description line. Multiple names are OK, so this passes muster:
NAME
bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2recover - block-sorting file compres-
sion/uncompression, v1.0.3
This and the constraint on command synopses (no embedded text) are the
only places where DocBook enforces a structural regularity that man
markup doesn't have.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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