[GRASS5] Patch for bug#3345 (debian bug#313307)

[Markus Neteler]

Daniel,

thanks for the new patch, seems to work fine (I tested a few
man pages).

Applied to both 6.1-CVS and 6.0-CVS.

Markus

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:42:47PM -0500, Daniel Calvelo Aros wrote:
> Ok, there you are. This patch does correctly escape backslashes before
> processing and then re-escapes single and double quotes where they could be
> active characters for roff. 
> 
> I noticed that backslashes are seldom used in the docs, but on two occasions
> they are intended to be actual roff escapes:
> 
> - r.mapcalc uses '\e' to denote continuation once. It uses '\' one paragraph
> later for the same. I think with this patch applied the '\e' should be changed
> to '\'. Note that for roff \e is the escape character, which can be changed,
> whereas \(rs is the backslash glyph. BTW, the docs for r.mapcalc contain
> several tables written as preformatted text, which can be rewritten as proper
> tables.
> 
> - r.watershed uses both \u and \d escapes, which are roff codes for switching
> on and off superscript. Those should be changed to something html-ish.
> 
> Otherwise, occurrences of '\' are for verbatim continuation lines or as
> html-unescaped shell-like special characters: \t, \n,...
> 
> Hope I got it right this time. Sorry for the previous noise.
> 
> -- Daniel Calvelo Aros