Re: links in man2hlp

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

David Martin wrote:
> I tried this to get punctuation marks out the link references
> avoiding extra spaces (ala .BR or .IR). The best idea I got
> was using "\&" as separator because it seems to have no side
> effects for groff in the man page. I read something about
> "\&" preventing kerning between characters but that doesn't
> seem anything to worry about.

Another possible solution is .\" at the same line in .\"LINK2

> I invented a LINK3 entry but if you trust the code it could go
> as LINK2. I was careful with strings but I don't know if
> glib functions must be used anyway.

snprintf() is not portable, so use g_snprintf().

> Is there anyway to get the date into the help/groff files?
> I (me again :) wanted to complete the header and the footer
> (in .TH at the head of the file). @VERSION@ seems to do the
> job for the version (like @prefix@) in mc.1.in.
There are yr (years since 1900), mo (month) and dy (day of 
month)registers in groff. So, you can add something like
.nr yr \n(yr+1900
.TH ... "\n(dy-\n(mo-\n(yr"
at the beginning of your man page.

Register support is not implemented in man2hlp now.

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov