Re: [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB]

2007-01-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I guess maybe you should be using the latest DocBook DTD for > validation :) I'm using 4.4 now. I've spent most of the last two days implementing support for multiple namedivs and coping with the ripple effects of that change. (I had to rewrite the nane-s

[Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB]

2007-01-04 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-01 12:25 -0500: > M Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But that form is _so_ much easier to read and understand, especially for the > > novice! That, to my mind, is the overriding goal of the exercise. > > I agree. Unfortunately, I can't fix this. I

Re: [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook

2007-01-03 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-03 07:17 -0500: > Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > That was true prior to DocBook 4.3, but it's not true currently > > (neither in DocBook 4 nor DocBook 5). > > Oh, good. I shall add support for this immediately and get rid of a large > n

Re: [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB]

2007-01-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That was true prior to DocBook 4.3, but it's not true currently > (neither in DocBook 4 nor DocBook 5). Oh, good. I shall add support for this immediately and get rid of a large number of warnings and fix patches. Thanks for the heads-up, > The current

[Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB]

2007-01-03 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-01 11:32 -0500: > 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 > >