[PATCH] texi2pod.pl: import support for @t{...} from gcc

Simon Marchi simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Tue Sep 17 03:21:00 GMT 2019


GDB's man page source (in gdb.texinfo) contains:

    @t{++}

The @t{...} part is supposed to display the wrapped text with a
fixed-width font.  The texi2pod.pl script currently doesn't handle
@t{...}, so it appears as-is in the man page:

    You can use GDB to debug programs written in C, C@t{++}, Fortran and Modula-2.

gcc's version of texi2pod.pl (at contrib/texi2pod.pl in gcc's repo)
replaces @t{...} with the wrapped text as-is, which I think is an
acceptable behavior.  The fixed-width font distinction is not really
important for a man page, where the text will be displayed with whatever
font the user is using.

Import the line that does that from gcc's version.

I have verified that there is no other, unwanted change in man pages
generated in binutils' and GDB's doc, with this patch applied.

etc/ChangeLog:

	* texi2pod.pl: Handle @t{...} tags.
---
 etc/texi2pod.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/etc/texi2pod.pl b/etc/texi2pod.pl
index b0540338c8ec..8d92bcf6023b 100644
--- a/etc/texi2pod.pl
+++ b/etc/texi2pod.pl
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ sub postprocess
     s/\@file\{([^\}]*)\}/F<$1>/g;
     s/\@w\{([^\}]*)\}/S<$1>/g;
     s/\@(?:dmn|math)\{([^\}]*)\}/$1/g;
+    s/\@t\{([^\}]*)\}/$1/g;
 
     # keep references of the form @ref{...}, print them bold
     s/\@(?:ref)\{([^\}]*)\}/B<$1>/g;
-- 
2.23.0



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