Fix troff warnings in manpages #8
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Newline characters are not allowed in an escape name. Also, troff treats lines starting with an apostrophe as a control line, that can be followed by a macro call. To avoid this, this patch replaces lines containing \n by .br, and uses \(aq instead of apostrophes on the beginning of a line. The warnings emitted by troff can be seen using the following command: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \ man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z man/voacapl.1 > /dev/null
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Hi James! While packaging voacapl for Debian, its package checker (lintian) found some warnings caused by voacap manpages:
troffdoes not allow newline characters in an escape name.This patch, in the case you merge it, replaces lines containing
\nby.br, and uses\(aqinstead of apostrophes on the beginning of a line.The warnings emitted by troff can be seen using the following command: