Re: Errors in man pages of texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 06:35:01PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Dear texinfo maintainer,
> Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
> i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
> groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
> possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into
> your source format.

This is particularly true for Texinfo as the man pages may come help2man
with some light postprocessing, from Pod or be manually written.

> Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
> not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
> problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
> them.
> 
> I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports
> should use another channel, please let me know.

This is the correct channel.

> Man page: info.5
> Issue 1:  I<emacs(1)> → B<emacs>(1)
> Issue 2:  I<info(1)> → B<info>(1)
> 
> "The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online "
> "documents.  It can be read by I<emacs(1)> and I<info(1)> among other "
> "programs."
> --
> Man page: info.5
> Issue 1:  I<texinfo(5)> → B<texinfo>(5)
> Issue 2:  I<makeinfo(1)> → B<makeinfo>(1)
> 
> "Info files are usually created from I<texinfo(5)> sources by I<makeinfo(1)>, 
> "
> "but can be created from scratch if so desired."

Thanks, I'll see to correct the formatting of man page links.

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Pat