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Bug#838854: cups-bsd: Typos in man pages



Hello Didier,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le dimanche, 25 septembre 2016, 21.05:13 h CEST Helge Kreutzmann a écrit :
> > While updating the German man page translation I finally moved myself
> > to report the numerous typos/inconsistencies noted during the German
> > translation. (Thus I marked them from the po file, but this is easily
> > translatable into the source files):
> 
> Thanks for this report; I've translated this into patches against the groff 
> source files and filed a pull request (see above URL)

Thanks.

> > *****************
> > 
> > Isn't the proper mark up "B<find -ls>"?
> > 
> > #. type: Plain text
> > #: ippfind.man:83
> > msgid ""
> > "Lists attributes returned by Get-Printer-Attributes for IPP printers and "
> > "traditional I<find> \"-ls\" output for HTTP URLs.  The result is true if
> > the " "URI is accessible, false otherwise."
> 
> No, because `find -ls` isn't runnable as-is. You need `find <path> -ls` etc, 
> so referring to `find` 's "-ls" output makes sense.

Ah, but then the »'s« is missing, isn't it?

> > *****************
> > 
> > # FIXME: String broken??
> > #.  character. Common attributes and values are listed in the IANA IPP
> > registry \- see references below. #. type: Plain text
> > #: ipptoolfile.man:144
> > #, fuzzy
> > #| msgid ""
> > #| "Adds an attribute to the test request. Values are separated by the comma
> > " #| "(\",\")  character - escape commas using the \"\\e\" character.
> > Common " #| "attributes and values are listed in the IANA IPP registry -
> > see " #| "references below."
> > msgid ""
> > "Adds an attribute to the test request. Values are separated by the comma
> > (\"," "\") character - escape commas using the \""
> 
> I can't really see what's wrong here. How is it broken? In the original/final 
> manpages?

This might actually be a po4a bug. The part after »\"« is missing in the
pot file, i.e. the remaining part:
character. Common attributes and values are listed in the IANA IPP
registry \- see references below.

Greetings

          Helge
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