Re: Bug#210623: more manpages

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Alper Ersoy wrote:

> Hey!
>
> Tim Janik:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
>
> > > in fact there are several manpages that are incorrect:
>
> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/bse.3.gz: whatis parse for bse(3) failed
> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/sfi.3.gz: whatis parse for sfi(3) failed
> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/bse-structs.3.gz: whatis parse for bse-structs(3) failed
> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/bse-procs.3.gz: whatis parse for bse-procs(3) failed
> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/beast-gxk.3.gz: whatis parse for beast-gxk(3) failed
>
> > alper, can you look into this?
>
> It seems mandb looks for '.SH NAME' and '.SH DESCRIPTION' lines, and
> reads the stuff in between them.  Actually we don't use .SH, instead
> of it we have .H1 which calls .SH later.
>
> I'm going to drop all of my own macros for headlines, page numbers and
> stuff, because things get very complicated and hard to track.  I want
> to use LaTeX, or better ConTeXt for PS/PDF outputs.  I'll start as
> soon as you 'ok' me ;)

eh - "ok" ;)

while i have no probs depending on latex for building docs,
i have no idea what ConTeXt is, can you give a bit of detail
about this?

oh and, having the down/up load section finished is a bit more
important.

> Later,
>
> --
> Alper Ersoy
>

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ciaoTJ