From db2557052c75efa8991e464d5a5147bf1d29a4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:30:19 +0000 Subject: (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:' in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index d7d096292..eb393b0b3 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1653,8 +1653,13 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @item +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] @itemx --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] -@opindex +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] -@opindex --pages +@c The two following @opindex lines evoke warnings because they contain `:' +@c The `info' spec does not permit that. If we use those lines, we end +@c up with truncated index entries that don't work. +@c @opindex +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] +@c @opindex --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] +@opindex +@var{page_range} +@opindex --pages=@var{page_range} Begin printing with page @var{first_page} and stop with @var{last_page}. Missing @samp{:@var{last_page}} implies end of file. While estimating the number of skipped pages each form feed in the input file results -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf