[Po4a-commits] "po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a Man.pm,1.150,1.151"
Nicolas FRANCOIS
nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org
Mon Jun 12 21:01:58 UTC 2006
Update of /cvsroot/po4a/po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a
In directory haydn:/tmp/cvs-serv1004/lib/Locale/Po4a
Modified Files:
Man.pm
Log Message:
Update documentation regarding unsupported stuff.
Index: Man.pm
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/po4a/po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/Man.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.150
retrieving revision 1.151
diff -u -d -r1.150 -r1.151
--- Man.pm 12 Jun 2006 20:56:27 -0000 1.150
+++ Man.pm 12 Jun 2006 21:01:56 -0000 1.151
@@ -219,14 +219,6 @@
you'll have to avoid if you want to see translators taking care of your
documentation.
-=head2 Don't use the mdoc macro set
-
-The macro set described in mdoc(7) (and widely used under BSD, IIRC) isn't
-supported at all by po4a, and won't be. It would need a completely separate
-parser for this, and I'm not inclined to do so. On my machine, there are
-only 63 pages based on mdoc, from 4323 pages. If someone implements the mdoc
-support, I'll happily include this, though.
-
=head2 Don't program in nroff
nroff is a complete programming language, with macro definition,
@@ -234,13 +226,6 @@
interpreter, it will fail on pages using these facilities (There are about
200 such pages on my box).
-=head2 Avoid file inclusion when possible
-
-The '.so' groff macro used to include another file in the current one is
-supported, but from my own experience, it makes harder to manipulate
-the man page, since all files have to be installed in the right location so
-that you can see the result (ie, it breaks somehow the '-l' option of man).
-
=head2 Use the plain macro set
There are still some macros which are not supported by po4a::man. This is
@@ -334,7 +319,7 @@
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
-Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by SPI, inc.
+Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by SPI, inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of GPL (see the COPYING file).
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