mc.1 translated in Russian
Andrew V. Samoilov
kai at cmail.ru
Fri Feb 22 14:55:14 UTC 2002
Hello,
>>>> By the way, it would be nice if you applied your script to the
>>>> Hungarian translation as well - it is already on CVS (lib/mc.hlp.hu).
>>>>
>>> There is too many manual work. My sed script can't differ .PP, .IP
>>> and .TP.
>>>
>>
>> Is it a limitation of the script or the information is actually lost
>> in mc.hlp?
>>
> I did not find solution in 5 minutes, so I did not investigate this
> issue carefuly.
I can't imagine how to understand what
"-C args" Some text...
is
.TP
.I "\-C args"
Some text...
but not simple
.PP
.I "\-C args"
Some text...
>
>> Could you please send me the script?
>>
> Sure. But there are some known issues. It does not produce .\"LINK2
> if link is splited.
> I know how to implement it, but I was too lazy to implement and test
> it for 3 or 4 cases, sorry.
Also `-' must be espaped for .I
>>
>> By the way, where does "QueryBox" come from? There is no such word
>> in the original manual.
>>
It came from xnc.hlp.
>>
>> Also the translation overuses empty pairs of double quotes. Run this
>> to see what I mean:
>>
>> grep '""' mc.1.ru.in
>>
> grep '""' mc.1.in also outputs 4 empty .SH entries.
Well, after generating mc.hlp.ru I understand what you means. I think
some of these
"" can be replaced with '.
>
> I need something like .BR, .BI, IR family from mm.
>
Well, I found .BR, .IR in mandoc, but as far as I remember they were
absent in SCO man package.
Also these constractions are not supported by man2hlp.
Regards,
Andrew.
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