Re: Broken use of \c in man page

[arnold]

Hello.

Thank you for the report.

To be honest, I don't particularly agree that the use of \c is incorrect.
After all, [gtn]roff all format the man page without any problem.

The reason this was not an issue in gawk 5.1 is that for 5.2 I made an
effort to significantly reduce the size of the output. Part of that
was to put both short and long options on the same line instead of
using two lines.

If you wish to submit a patch to the man page, that would speed
things up.  Otherwise, I will probably fix things for you, but
I see it as a very low priority item.

Thanks,

Arnold

Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:

> Dear gawk maintainers,
>
> The usage of \c is in gawk(1) is incorrect. It fails when trying
> to use po4a to provide translations of the man pages. Im currently
> "patching around this" in manpages-l10n.
>
> For a full explanation of the problem see Debian #1036826 
> https://bugs.debian.org/1036826
> and the explanations by Bjarni, especially in message #25:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1036826;msg=25
>
> It would be great if you could fix this so that manpages-l10n can
> remove our workaround, which slows down our build.
>
> Btw. the man page in Edition 5.1 does not contain this problem, it 
> was introduced in Edition 5.2.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Greetings
>
>          Helge
>
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