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ocamldoc manpage generator does not preserve formatting in {[ ]} #6596
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This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
Still an issue. |
This was fixed in #9113 . |
@whitequark: could you please check that something is "still an issue" before commenting? |
@xavierleroy Could you please not threaten to automatically close, for the most part, valid issues in bulk simply because they were inactive for a year? This is a hostile policy and I will deal with it the way I deal with hostile policies. |
And to be clear, doing automatic triage like this once, or triaging manually with the same request would not be a problem. It is the part where this policy creates endless make-work for reporters each year that makes it hostile. |
Original bug ID: 6596
Reporter: @whitequark
Assigned to: @zoggy
Status: assigned (set by @damiendoligez on 2015-01-16T16:24:21Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 4.03.0+dev / +beta1
Category: ocamldoc
Bug description
As I understand it, {[ ]} is intended for e.g. code samples. As such, in HTML documentation, it's written down using < pre >, and everything is fine. However, in manpages, it ignores newlines and whitespace and all the text smashes into a single line, making the sample unreadable.
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