Some issues regarding the manpages stylesheet

[Costin Stroie <cstroie@bitdefender.com>]

Hello!

The new manpages stylesheet of 1.69.0 is great. The output quality is 
impressive. But I have some remarks to make.

1. There should be some way to specify the output directory, something 
like 'base.dir' used in html chunking.

2. Some useless code should not be generated. For example, the following 
xml code (perhaps these long lines will be truncated) ...

<term><option>--alev=<replaceable class="option">level</replaceable></option></term>

...produces the next output:

\fB\-\-alev=\fR\fB\fIlevel\fR\fR

In this case, the second \fB is useless. And there is more, such as:

\fB\fBbdc \fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-\-arc \fR\fR\fB\fR\fB\fB\-\-log=\fR\fB\fI/tmp/bdc.log\fR\fR\fB \fR\fR\fB\fR\fB\fB\-\-debug \fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-\-disinfect \fR\fR\fB\fR\fB\fI/var/tmp\fR\fR\

I know, there is no simple solution for it. :(

3. When <screen>...</screen> is used, before '.nf' and after '.fi' there 
are empty lines. These lines ARE NOT IGNORED by groff.

4. When the next syntax is used ...
<para>
   <command>blabla</command>
</para>

...in the output code there is one space (' ') before the '\fBblabla\fR', 
at the beginning of the line. This one is NOT DISCARDED by groff. That 
space character is absent when the following syntax is used:

<para><command>blabla</command></para>

That's all for the moment. :P

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