Bug 97087

Summary: docbook2man doesn't quote dots at the beginning of the line
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer>
Component: docbook-utilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Fixed In Version: 0.6.13-7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Gordon Messmer 2003-06-10 04:51:49 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
When converted to nroff format, a dot at the beginning of the line starts a
macro.  If a docbook file has a dot at the beginning of one of its lines of
text, man will either not display the following word, or not display then entire
line of text (depending on the version of man).

The fix is pretty simple, '.' characters at the beginning of a line of text must
always be quoted as '&.' (ampersand-dot, in case it gets lost in the HTML).  The
upstream author has been notified, and corrected the problem in the current
series of docbook-utils.  I'll attach a patch for the version that you're
distributing.  It works for me.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
docbook-utils-0.6.12-5
Comment 1 Gordon Messmer 2003-06-10 04:52:44 UTC 
Created attachment 92292 [details]
always quotes dots at the beginning of the line
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-06-10 08:36:55 UTC 
Thanks.  Fixed package will appear in rawhide shortly.