(html man pages) .Cd and underscore play badly

[Johann Kois]

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 22:10, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi -doc,
>
> Through a long chain of events, I came to be looking at the snd_ess
> man page online:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_ess&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpat
>h=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE
>
> note that
> device snd_ess
> and
> device snd_sbc
> are only highlighted for the ``snd_'' portion; the part after the
> underscore is not marked-up as the configuration declaration.
>
> Possibly unrelated:
> In the few minutes I spent investigating (and not getting far), I
> noticed that there are some broken links with underscores in the roff
> man page as well:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=roff
> for example, groff_out(5) is mentioned by that page, but the link is
> only active on the text ``out(5)'', and tries to link to
> man.cgi?query=out , which does not yield any result.

Hm.  Problem confirmed.  man.cgi?query=groff_out would work but the link
points only to the "out" part.
 
> I don't have much time to look into this at the moment, but should I
> file a PR anyways?
>
> -Ben Kaduk

Sure.  Submitting a PR is (nearly) always a good idea.  :)

J. Kois
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