GNU bug report logs - #53977
Improve markup in man pages

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Improve markup in man pages
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 14:19:32 +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/cat.1
[2] https://man.archlinux.org/man/cat.1.de

Best Regards,
Mario

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