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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:21:52 +0100
From:      Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
To:        "'freebsd-doc@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: &man question
Message-ID:  <20020227142152.B56195@nathan.ruhr.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020227144808.A359@straylight.oblivion.bg>
References:  <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B43830@mailserv.xpert.com> <20020227144808.A359@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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Hoi,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:30:27PM +0200, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:
> > &man.something.1 works. Why doesn't
> > &man.some_thing.1 works? 
> 
> Uhm.. because &man.some_thing.1 is not defined as an entity?
> See doc/share/sgml/man-refs.ent for the defined entities.

which reminds me that I need to re-run makemanent (ports/fdp-tools)
one of these days and fill in all the entities that are missing.
 
> it just might be that an underscore is an illegal character
> for entity names.

That's exactly the reason why we have &man.pkg.create.1; and not the
more logical &man.pkg_create.1;.  Underscores are not allowed in an
entity names.  The characters + and [ are also illegal, given us
entities like &man.c...1; for c++.

> I doubt that, however;

Just try it - open man-refs.ent, define &man.pkg_create.1;, use it in
an .sgml file, and watch the system hurl.

/s/Udo
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