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Re: [PATCH v5 04/12] doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-12 07:10:33

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 08:07:41AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
We do not quote the notation within the headings as the asciidoc ->
docbook -> groff man viewer toolchain, particularly the docbook-groff
step, does not cope with two font changes, failing to return the heading
font to bold after the quotation of the notation.
[...]
The docbook folks have confirmed that \fP would only work across one
level, so they cannot use it for their XSLT conversion which must be
multi-level, so they always return to the default font.
Thanks for digging into the root cause. I think your workaround (to
avoid quoted bits in headers) is reasonable, and a rule we can keep in
mind for future patches.

-Peff
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