Your message with subj: Man pages in KHelpCenter should be formatted man pages are rendered by kio_man quite nicely. I don't see the purpose of this wishlist item --=20 life is too short to make mistakes has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.kde.org; 18 Nov 2001 06:21:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 2258 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2001 06:21:06 -0000 Received: from engmail.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.50.62) by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with SMTP; 18 Nov 2001 06:21:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (sfllaw@localhost) by engmail.uwaterloo.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAI6L3O06070 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 01:21:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 01:21:03 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Law To: submit@bugs.kde.org Subject: Man pages in KHelpCenter should be formatted Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de 300/1000/N Package: khelpcenter Severity: wishlist Description: Man pages are written in nroff: a document typesetting language. Unfortunately, KHelpCenter is throwing away all those nice wonderful hints about how to format a document. Gone are the bolding and italics that are standard practise in man. These visual hints really help when reading documentation. Recommendation: There are two possible solutions to this problem: 1) groff already knows how to spit out HTML man pages. You could use it. 2) make KHelpCenter interpret the .I and .B tags to format the document correctly.