er, ignore the first part of my previous message. You don't need
to wait for the sbr fix. Bob has already checked it in :)
Roman Neuhauser <> writes:
> # / 2005-02-10 10:35:03 -0800:
> > It appears that sbr was never implemented in manpages/docbook.xsl. The bug
> > you are referring to was fixed in the HTML and FO stylesheets. In
> > manpages/docbook.xsl, you find:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="sbr" />
> >
> > which does nothing. It should probably be something like:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="sbr">
> > <xsl:text> .br </xsl:text>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> Yup, I found that as well, but got confused by the combination of
> nwalsh's comment and the apparent lack of change, and thought...
> Well, now that I *know* it's a problem I can push this patch into
> the FreeBSD port of docbook-xsl which is my primary interest ATM,
> but that's obviously suboptimal (other operating systems...).
>
> So, do I need to file a PR at the sf.net site or do the maintainers
> read this list? And when can I expect the fix to appear in a
> release?
>
> Also, the output of the stylesheet looks very inferior to that of
> man pages written by hand (excessive or missing whitespace, other
> bugs); how fast are reported bugs usually fixed? Is the man page
> stylesheet actively maintained? Widely used (I know only FreeBSD in
> this regard, and that system has man pages written "by hand")?
>
> Many questions from a newcomer, I know, but I would like to make
> a qualified decision whether I should kick the docbook source any
> further or just write the documentation with mdoc(7).
>
> Thanks!
>