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Subject:    Bug#35030: marked as done (Man pages in KHelpCenter should be formatted) by Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde
From:       owner () bugs ! kde ! org (Stephan Kulow)
Date:       2002-02-28 23:33:24
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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

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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)

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Subject: Man pages in KHelpCenter should be formatted
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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.

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