Re: [PATCH] Help Viewer - mouse issues

[Grigory Trenin <gtrenin gmail com>]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:08, Grigory Trenin wrote:
>  
>
> > Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >    
> >
> > I am not quite satisfied with that simple solution too.
> > What do you think if I convert xnc.hlp to mandoc format
> > and patch man2hlp respectively?
> > I think it will be sufficient to add to man2hlp support
> > of these two troff commands:
> > 1) '.ce' (to center lines)
> > 2) '.ti' (temporary indent - to support right indention of the
> >   first line of the paragraph).
> >    
>
> Sound nice. Do you have a patch already ? :)

Not yet :) I'm about to make it.

> Btw. after those
> changes do you think that xnc.hlp will still be necessary ?
>  
xnc.hlp contains information that is not included in the manual page
(help's welcome screen, GNU GPL). If we merge xnc.hlp with mc.1.in,
that information will be there. This is probably not what desired,
so we need some means to exclude it from the manual page.
We could put troff's .ex command in the appropriate place of mc.1.in,
it will tell troff to stop processing. But it sometimes emits a
"broken pipe" message.
Or we could put some magic comment, and at a build time, when
mc.1 is generated from mc.1.in, rip everything that follows that
magic comment.

> P.S. Your help is much appreciated

Thanks!
Wish my help is useful.