Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation

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Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation

From: Ulrich Windl <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:39

Hello!

When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?

Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
slooks somewhat strange.

Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.

Regards,
Ulrich

Re: Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation

From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:39

Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:22:
Hello!

When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?
Do you mean line wrap by any chance ("Zeilenumbruch")? None of the
manual pages use hyphenation ("Silbentrennung").
Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
slooks somewhat strange.
Which "archive" do you use? Where do you see the quote (if your system
displays a cech z)?
Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.
Which...

Michael

Re: Manual pages (from archive): no hyphenation

From: Ulrich Windl <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:39

On 24 Apr 2009 at 13:36, Michael J Gruber wrote:
Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:22:
quoted
Hello!

When using the manual pages that are shipped as archive, I noticed that some of 
them look a bit ugly, mostly because of the lack of hyphenation. If that wasn't 
intentional, could the proper commandy be added to the manual pages?
Do you mean line wrap by any chance ("Zeilenumbruch")? None of the
manual pages use hyphenation ("Silbentrennung").
Hi,

no, I meant what I write. Here "man bash" shows (the hypenation character is odd 
somehow):
-----snip---
DESCRIPTION
       Bash  is  an  sh-compatible  command language interpreter that executes
       commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also incor-
       porates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
-------snip------

So "incor-porates" is hyphenated, right. Maybe it's a default if groff somewhere.
quoted
Also I've noticed that a signle quote is displayed (on my UTF-8 system) as "Z with 
an inverted roof" (i.e. a 'Z' with a vertically mirrored circumflex on top). That 
slooks somewhat strange.
Which "archive" do you use? Where do you see the quote (if your system
displays a cech z)?
I don't have access to it right now, but I got it for git-1.6 from kernel.org 
about two weeks ago. I also cannot tell you where I saw that character, but it 
occurred many times; otherwise I wouldn't care.
quoted
Furthermose  In oticed that there is no manual page for git-status in the archive.
Which...
The same as the one above ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich
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