[debbugs-tracker] bug#19476: closed (Poor output from "help2man split")

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Poor output from "help2man split" Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:28:37 -0800

This is sent to the bug address for both split and help2man because I don't really know where the fault lies.  Both help2man and split are GNU software, though, so I hope you can cooperate and figure it out.

In any event, there's a bit of the output that is challenging to read because line breaks have been lost.  The output of "help2man split" joins the nines in the poriti that begins

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> On 30/11/14 17:33, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 30/11/14 17:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >> This is sent to the bug addresses for both help2man and split because I'm 
> >> not sure where the fault lies.  Both are GNU projects, so I hope you can 
> >> cooperate and figure it out.
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> >> In any event, the output of "help2man split" loses some line breaks and 
> >> makes an itemized list somewhat hard to understand.  This is the portion 
> >> that begins "CHUNKS may be:"
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> >> I'm an Xubuntu user, and this output is the man page we get.  I expect the 
> >> same is true of some or all debian-based distros, and perhaps others as well.
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> > Yes we should improve this. with the following simple patch
> > we get better output in the man page,
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> I've now pushed that and marking this as done.
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> > though there are extraneous newlines then
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> I'm not sure if tighter formatting is possible
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> Pádraig.
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