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Re: [patch] remove munging of item from texi2pod.pl
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: "GCC Patches" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Eric Christopher" <echristo at apple dot com>
- Cc: "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:58:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] remove munging of item from texi2pod.pl
Eric Christopher wrote:
Taking a look at gcc.pod (or gcc.1) we can see that some strings are getting munged:
.IP "@cvmmfu" 4
instead of:
.IP "@bullet" 4
as it should be.
Actually neither of those is right. A bullet list should be =item *
in the generated POD,
and .IP "\(bu" in the manpage itself.
From what I can tell the munging at the end of itemx isn't really needed and from
an inspection of the generated pod and man pages afterward the only changes
I see are fixing of cases like the above.
I guess we aren't using any numbered lists, then. pod2man is, perhaps
deliberately, stupid about numbered lists - you have to do the
counting yourself. (podlators author cc:ed for comment.) That is
what the code you took out is trying to do.
After quite a bit of staring, I think the right fix is this patch instead:
==================================================================
--- texi2pod.pl (revision 117491)
+++ texi2pod.pl (local)
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ while(<$inf>) {
if (defined $1) {
$ic = $1;
} else {
- $ic = '@bullet';
+ $ic = '*';
}
$_ = "\n=over 4\n";
$endw = "itemize";
zw