Bug#979735: man pages: manuals created from a docbook file need postprocessing
Package: apt-utils
Version: 2.1.15
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
the attachment contains a shell script to fix man pages created from
a docbook file.
Main improvements are:
# Remove trailing spaces.
# Remove .PP after .SH and .SH.
# Remove '\&' before a period inside or after a word.
# '\&' suppresses kerning between characters on both sides of it.
# Break lines after a punctuation mark and before a parentheses.
# To make lines shorter and easier to read, edit, and make a diff.
sed -e '/\\"/n' \
-e '/^\.TS,^\.TE/n' \
-e 's/ *$//' \
-e '/^\.S[SH]/{n; /\.PP/d}' \
-e 's/\([^ ]\)\\&\./\1./g' \
-e 's/\([^ ][.,;!?]\) */\1\n/g' \
-e 's/ (/\n(/g' ${1:--}
An example is "apt-extracttemplates.1".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.4-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii apt 2.1.15
ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.1.15
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.6
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-3
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-3
apt-utils recommends no packages.
apt-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
#!/bin/sh
set -efu
# Skip lines with comments.
# Skip tables.
# Remove trailing spaces.
# Remove .PP after .SH and .SH.
# Remove '\&' before a period inside or after a word.
# '\&' suppresses kerning between characters on both sides of it.
# Break lines after a punctuation mark, before a parentheses.
# To make lines shorter and easier to edit and diff.
sed -e '/\\"/n' \
-e '/^\.TS,^\.TE/n' \
-e 's/ *$//' \
-e '/^\.S[SH]/{n; /\.PP/d}' \
-e 's/\([^ ]\)\\&\./\1./g' \
-e 's/\([^ ][.,;!?]\) */\1\n/g' \
-e 's/ (/\n(/g' ${1:--}
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