single quotes in the manpage

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Thu May 15 20:19:14 EST 2003


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:53:23AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:20:16AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > In the manpage, all occurrences of a single quote (or apostrophe) are
> > preceded by a backslash.
> 
> This is a yodl thing -- we use normal apostrophes in the .yo file, and
> the yodl2man script turns them into \' sequences.  I don't see an option
> to turn this off, so if we think this is something that should be
> changed, we'd probably have to tweak the Makefile rule to add a
> sed-filter step after yodl2man.

The question i have to ask is why yodl?  Is it being used
for the website or something? 

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