[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #612: g.html2man: parsing leads to man page errors

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#612: g.html2man: parsing leads to man page errors
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  Reporter:  hamish       |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  6.5.0                    
 Component:  Docs         |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  g.html2man               
  Platform:  Unspecified  |         Cpu:  All                      
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Comment (by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:3 glynn]:
 > How is the script supposed to determine whether a '-' in the HTML
 > is a minus or a hyphen?

 fwiw, lintian's perl detection goes like:
 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.2.10.tar.gz
 {{{
 # Catch hyphens used as minus signs by looking for ones at the
 # beginning of a word, but don't generate false positives on \s-1
 # (small font), \*(-- (pod2man long dash), or things like \h'-1'.
     if ($line =~ /^(
                     ([^\.].*)?
                     [\s\'\"\`\(\[]
                     (?<! \\s | \*\( | \(- | \w\' )
                    )?
                     (--?\w+)/ox) {
 }}}


 > For now, I've changed it to convert all occurrences of '-' to '\-'.

 ok; cosmetic rendering errors are better than syntax ones I guess.



 cheers,
 Hamish

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