From: Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: export to man page problem
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 09:45:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140907094531.0ebbc90b@arcor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhpvc3ai.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for answering.
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:12:21 +0200
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> writes:
>
> > When exporting to a man page an underscore will be translated to
> > nothing.
> >
> > Any idea what I could do?
>
> Because I know close to nothing about Groff, could you give an example
> illustrating
>
> 1. what you wrote,
> 2. what you expected to have in the ".man" file,
> 3. what you actually got.
>
>
Take this
<--------------snip---------------->
#+TITLE: mycmd
* NAME
mycmd - does very important things
* SYNOPSIS
mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a]
* DESCRIPTION
mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable MYCMD_OPT
<--------------snap---------------->
The man page looks like this:
mycmd(1) General Commands
Manual mycmd(1)
NAME
mycmd - does very important things
SYNOPSIS
mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a]
DESCRIPTION
mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable
MYCMDOPT
As you can see the _ (underscore) in MYCMD_OPT vanished.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-07 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-07 6:56 export to man page problem Manfred Lotz
2014-09-07 7:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-07 7:45 ` Manfred Lotz [this message]
2014-09-07 8:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-07 14:53 ` Manfred Lotz
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