Hi, Michael! On Fr 2018-02-09 08:22:36 +0100, Daniel Lublin wrote: > Trying to pick up on this again -- dashes in the POSIX man-pages are mostly > of the wrong sort, and makes it difficult to search for options in the > pages. (Cc Drew DeVault, yes I came across this from your blog post) > > On 2017-12-03 15:25:41, Nico R <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2017-03-13T03:31:45, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 27 Feb 2017 15:16, Marcus Geiger wrote: > > > > in the examples section of `man 1 getopts`, every dash/minus used in the > > > > example code cannot be parsed by bash. vi claims it's 0x2212 instead of 0x2d. > > > > > > > > I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with bash 4.3.46(1)-release. Unfortunately I couldn't find > > > > the source code for this man page, but the current online pages entry also has > > > > this problem: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getopts.1p.html > > > > > > > > The containing package is: > > > > > > > > $ dpkg -S $(man -w 1 getopts) > > > > manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/getopts.1posix.gz > > > > > > looks like a bug in the man page itself. it uses \(mi instead of \- in > > > the example code. might be an artifact of the conversion process though > > > as iirc, the posix pages are generated. > > > > I agree. As the matter seems not to have been handled yet, I’m bringing this > > up again. > > > > Some more detail: it seems that all POSIX man pages are affected, more or > > less. > > [...] > > > I would have tried to help a bit more with this issue, but I do not know > > what/where the sources for the POSIX man pages are, I do not know how the > > POSIX man pages are generated from their sources, and I could not find any > > conversion scripts. Can anyone explain the process, please? > > I found https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/todo.html which states: > > Status: completed in January 2014 (publication of the POSIX.1-2013 pages). > > And looking in the man-pages website repo, Michael Kerrisk committed this. > So if you Michael also did the actual update of the POSIX man-pages, do you > have pointers to the sources for them, and any scripts which where used to > process them (according to todo.html) to produce the man-files? It’s been over a year since the original bug report, and quite a while since the last mail in this thread. Michael, can you shed a bit of light on the issue? Or do you have any pointers for people willing to help with this? Thanks -- Nico
