Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 24872:eff35a417aea
Explain the difference between '-' and '\-', correctly now.
| author | diego |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:42:24 +0000 |
| parents | 79dadcf1e89e |
| children | 7d904ffdb5f3 |
| files | DOCS/tech/manpage.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt Tue Oct 30 17:39:55 2007 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt Tue Oct 30 17:42:24 2007 +0000 @@ -165,10 +165,11 @@ .nh, .ad, .hy, macro definitions, comments and some more - Don't forget the quotation marks around expressions, etc... - Each new sentence should start on a line of its own. - - Put a backslash before a '-' if it denotes a range (1\-10), an option - (\-fs), stdin (\-) or a dash (mplayer \- movie player). - 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. + - There is a typographical difference between a hyphen, a minus and an + en-dash or em-dash. For the man page this means that you should put a + backslash before a '-' if it denotes a range (1\-10), an option (\-fs), + stdin (\-), a dash (mplayer \- movie player) or a minus (-1). Use just + '-' if it is a hyphen (A-V). - Don't start a line with "'" or ".", nroff treats them specially. - To quickly check a manual page for markup errors, just run man DOCS/man/XX/mplayer.1 > /dev/null