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Improve markup in man pages

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From: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Improve markup in man pages
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 13:55:41 +0100

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Hello,

the SEE ALSO sections in the man pages contain links which will be
pulled in from *.x files by help2man. While help2man evaluates the
Groff markup from --help and --version output, it doesn't bother with
the markup in the *.x files. See the attached patch. The bold
formatting of the links is especially useful in HTML output (but also
in terminal output); the links become clickable and point to the
respective man page in online collections [1]. You can test the
behavior in the German version, where the links are already properly
formatted [2].

[1] https://man.archlinux.org/man/cmp.1
[2] https://man.archlinux.org/man/cmp.1.de

Best Regards,
Mario

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Message #10 received at 53976-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 53976-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#53976: Improve markup in man pages
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:09:19 -0800

Thanks, installed here:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=dd9deb765548679e821be565229bb2e142d93573

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