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On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:24 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Been using the txt2man utility to translate some text files and command > help outputs to manpages but it appears to be txt2man cannot handle a > simple - properly? I've just checked on sid and etch and even txt2man's > own help page has this issue for example :- > > SYNOPSIS > txt2man [\fB-hpTX] [-t mytitle] [-P pname] [-r rel] [-s sect] > [\fB-v vol] [-I txt] [-B txt] [ifile] > ..... > OPTIONS > \fB-h The option -h displays help. > > \fB-P pname > Set pname as project name in header. Default to uname -s. > > ..... > > It seems that most - get replaced by a \fB- in the nroff output. > > Have i missed something here or is txt2man broken? Can't find any > references to this on internet? > > > Thanks :-) > Robin I would have that it'd be a problem with the way txt2man passes the - symbol to nroff. Personally I'm a copy/paste merchant with manedit/gmanedit. Cheers. Grant. :) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html