links in man2hlp

[Andrew V. Samoilov]

Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>>
>>>> I tried this to get punctuation marks out the link references
>>>> avoiding extra spaces (ala .BR or .IR). The best idea I got
>>>> was using "\&" as separator because it seems to have no side
>>>> effects for groff in the man page. I read something about
>>>> "\&" preventing kerning between characters but that doesn't
>>>> seem anything to worry about.
>>>
>>>
>>> Another possible solution is .\" at the same line in .\"LINK2
>>
>>
>>
>> Please show the examples.
> 
> 
> .\"LINK2"
> Layout\&).
> .\"Layout"
> 
> Layout should be highlighted, but ). - no.
> \& really is best, and no need to provide .\"LINK3". BTW, we need 
> something like README.man2hlp for translators. These people have not to 
> be programmers and have not time to read man2hlp.c.
> 
Current solution is to move ")." two lines below, but this produce extra 
space between "Layout" and ")." in the manual.

I produced simple patch for man2hlp.c.  ChangeLog entry should be 
Englished ;-)

ChangeLog:
* man2hlp.c (handle_link): Print part after \& in the linkname behind 
linkname.  Reported by David Martin <dmartina at excite.com>.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov
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