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Re: mutt/2030: ~ character in manual.sgml.head not correctly interpreted



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2030; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mutt/2030: ~ character in manual.sgml.head not correctly 
interpreted
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:37:49 -0500

 * On 2005.08.09, in <E1E2WRR-0000sW-V9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 *      "Vincent Lefevre" <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 >  
 >  Grrr... I forgot to quote the line. Here is it from doc/manual.sgml.head:
 >  
 >  ``X-Label:'' fields with the ``~y'' selector.  ``X-Label:'' is not a
 >  
 >  I get:
 >  
 >    fields with the `` y'' selector.  ``X-Label:'' is not a standard
 >  
 >  in doc/manual.txt.
 
 Perhaps it's different inside ``double quotes''?  IIRC, I've seen
 oddball mutt doc problems before that seem to be explained by such a
 hypothesis, but I can't check them as I don't have linuxdoc stuff.
 
 What happens if you make this line:
 
     ``X-Label:'' fields with the ``&sim;y'' selector.  ``X-Label:'' is not a
 
 I don't know how important this is, with Brendan's current docbook work,
 but it's strange.
 
 -- 
  -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx        NSIT    University of Chicago