Re: Errors in man pages, here: dsp56k(4): Formatting

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Helge,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 08:35, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Dear manpages maintainers.
> > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as
> > well for a large variety of target languages.
> >
> > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
> > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward
> > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention
> > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original.
> >
> > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
> > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
> > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
> > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be
> > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
> > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
> > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
> > each and every issue.
> >
> > 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 translate into
> > your source format.
> >
> > 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. As requested, each
> > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If
> > future reports should use another channel, please let me know.
> >
> > **
> >
> > The formatting is inconsistent and incomplete:
> >
> > a) Formatting bold?
> >
> > msgid "#include E<lt>asm/dsp56k.hE<gt>\n"
> >
> >
> > b) In this string the formatting for dspk56k seems missing:
> > "The dsp56k device is a character device with major number 55 and minor "
> > "number 0."
> >
> >
> > c) No formatting, italic?
> > msgid "/dev/dsp56k"

Thanks for checking this!

Okay -- somewhere along the way I messed up. I had fixed (1) but not
(b) and (c). Fixed now.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/