Improve rule generation in the "man" backend so that if the output

is processed by nroff, the rule is made up of \cfg{man-rule}
characters (same defaults as \cfg{text-rule}).

[originally from svn r6651]

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/output.but b/doc/output.but
index 351726e..c9614cd 100644
--- a/doc/output.but
+++ b/doc/output.but
@@ -1064,6 +1064,15 @@ sensible to output man pages in that charset.
 You can specify multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
 \cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}} directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
 
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-rule\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-rule\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}...\cw{\}}]
+
+\dd This specifies the text which should be used for drawing
+\i{horizontal rules} (generated by \i\c{\\rule}; see
+\k{input-rule}) when the manual page is rendered into text.
+It should only be one character long, but otherwise
+it works like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-rule\}} directive
+(see \k{output-text-characters}).
+
 \dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-quotes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-quotes\}\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}...\cw{\}}]
 
 \dd Specifies the quotation marks to use, overriding any
@@ -1084,6 +1093,7 @@ The \i{default settings} for the \cw{man} page output format are:
 \c
 \c \cfg{man-charset}{ASCII}
 \c \cfg{man-bullet}{\u2022}{o}
+\c \cfg{man-rule}{\u2500}{-}
 \c \cfg{man-quotes}{\u2018}{\u2019}{"}{"}
 
 \H{output-info} GNU \c{info}