changeset 12864:6626044764e0

Hint about . and ' in nroff.
author diego
date Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:31:54 +0000
parents dd813750f69c
children 52138861a3c5
files DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Mon Jul 19 23:43:55 2004 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Tue Jul 20 00:31:54 2004 +0000
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
       (\-fs), stdin (\-) or a dash (mplayer  \- Movie Player for Linux).
       Use just '-' if it is a hyphen (A-V) or a minus (-1). Please note that
       it should be \-dvd-device and not \-dvd\-device.
+    - Don't start a line with "'" or ".", nroff treats them specially.
 
 
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