hmm, on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:18:55AM +0200, frantisek holop said that > hi there, > > the port i am working on uses a2x to turn text files into man pages. > i have noticed that the generated man pages are full of html entity > codes for characters like "'" and others. > > for example: > > Don't > > is turned into: > > Don’t > > > the files were generated with: > > /usr/local/bin/a2x.py -d manpage -f manpage file.txt > > > how can i make this go away? i see other ports using a2x > but in more creative ways like a2x + xmlto. > > is using only a2x for generating man pages broken?
i have also tried the flow: $ asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook -o file.xml - < file.txt $ xmlto man file.xml but the html entities are still there in file.8 in the debian generated man page for the same port i see: .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' and "Don't" looks like this: Don\(cqt -f -- the borg assimilated my race & all i got was this t-shirt
