From Bugzilla Helper: 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
Created attachment 92292 [details] always quotes dots at the beginning of the line
Thanks. Fixed package will appear in rawhide shortly.