Bug 797005
| Summary: | using a quotation mark in .SS breaks the format | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Akira TAGOH <tagoh> | ||||
| Component: | groff | Assignee: | Jan Vcelak <jvcelak> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | jvcelak, tsmetana | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-05-30 07:02:39 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Akira TAGOH
2012-02-24 02:27:50 UTC
FWIW .SS \&"foo\&" becomes "foo". quoting strings containing a quotation mark seems introducing this issue. > Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.man ./attached
Akira, please, can you attach the input file?
Created attachment 587372 [details]
minimal groff code to reproduce
Doh! sorry for that.
BTW I realized this issue on fonts-conf.5 from fontconfig. the attached file is the minimal requirements to reproduce this issue.
Akira, I believe this is not a bug. \& is a zero-width character, its intended use is to stop interaction of a character with its surrounding [1]. It does not escape anything. If you want to use double quotes in macro arguments, you should use either double quote glyph \(dq or double the double quote character [2]. Both solutions work: .SS """foo""" .SS "\(dqfoo\(dq" Do you agree? Usage of zero-width-character in font-config man page is IMHO wrong. The manpage is autogenerated using docbook, so I think this is a bug in docbook2man. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Ligatures-and-Kerning.html [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Request-and-Macro-Arguments.html docbook-utils: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826139 fontconfig: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826145 Aha. thanks for the explanation. please feel free to close this then. |