Re: ls 6.7 man page bugs (unterminated bold macros)

[Eric Blake]

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According to amores perros on 4/15/2007 1:04 PM:
> ls 6.7
> In the man page, the options are in bold, and the explanations are not,
> except

Thanks for the report.  However, the man page is generated using the
'help2man' tool from the 'ls --help' output, so you may want to
investigate whether these are bugs in that tool, rather than in ls.

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> I was figuring out how to write a man page,
> and looked at the ls one for reference, and
> noticed these.

Manually writing man pages tends to be a pretty harsh way to do things.
Man pages are relatively obsolete, and not required by the GNU Coding
Standards.  These days, it is easier to generate a man page using an
automated tool that parses input from another format.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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