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er, ignore the first part of my previous message. You don't need to wait for the sbr fix. Bob has already checked it in :) Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> writes: > # bobs@sagehill.net / 2005-02-10 10:35:03 -0800: > > It appears that sbr was never implemented in manpages/docbook.xsl. The bug > > you are referring to was fixed in the HTML and FO stylesheets. In > > manpages/docbook.xsl, you find: > > > > <xsl:template match="sbr" /> > > > > which does nothing. It should probably be something like: > > > > <xsl:template match="sbr"> > > <xsl:text> .br </xsl:text> > > </xsl:template> > > Yup, I found that as well, but got confused by the combination of > nwalsh's comment and the apparent lack of change, and thought... > Well, now that I *know* it's a problem I can push this patch into > the FreeBSD port of docbook-xsl which is my primary interest ATM, > but that's obviously suboptimal (other operating systems...). > > So, do I need to file a PR at the sf.net site or do the maintainers > read this list? And when can I expect the fix to appear in a > release? > > Also, the output of the stylesheet looks very inferior to that of > man pages written by hand (excessive or missing whitespace, other > bugs); how fast are reported bugs usually fixed? Is the man page > stylesheet actively maintained? Widely used (I know only FreeBSD in > this regard, and that system has man pages written "by hand")? > > Many questions from a newcomer, I know, but I would like to make > a qualified decision whether I should kick the docbook source any > further or just write the documentation with mdoc(7). > > Thanks! >
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