[Pkg-lyx-devel] Fix for some warnings in the tex2lyx.1 manpage

rgheck rgheck at bobjweil.com
Sun Jan 4 19:16:30 UTC 2009


Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Hi,
> attached is a small patch to set the comments right in the tex2lyx manpage.
>
>   
I'm happy to commit this, but someone who actually knows about this 
should have a quick look first.

rh

> With this patch applied there are only two warnings waiting to be fixed.
> $ LANG=C man --warnings -l tex2lyx.1 >/dev/null
> <standard input>:43: warning: `Tr' not defined
> <standard input>:584: warning: `IX' not defined
>
> For the first one I've still no idea how exactly this should work so no
> good idea on how to fix it either.
>
> The .IX macros seem to be some legacy stuff from SunOS for section 3 manpages.
> Citing http://www.linux.com/feature/34212
>
>        There are additional macros for some systems. For instance, on
>        old SunOS systems, there's an IX macro, used something like this:
>
>        	   .IX "mem2sz()" "" "makes sz from mem"
>
> 	This was used in section 3 man pages to help populate an
> 	index; it doesn't appear to have any effect in current man page
> 	systems. The pod2man utility generates these for section headings.
>
>
>
> I'll see if I can replace it with something more appropriate.
>
> Sven
>   




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