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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl16
-rw-r--r--Makefile4
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 7a8037f586..7614844efa 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
endif
+# If your target system uses GNU groff, it may try to render
+# apostrophes as a "pretty" apostrophe using unicode. This breaks
+# cut&paste, so you should set GNU_ROFF to force them to be ASCII
+# apostrophes. Unfortunately does not work with non-GNU roff.
+ifdef GNU_ROFF
+XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-quote-apos.xsl
+endif
+
SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
# Shell quote;
SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aeb8839f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<!-- work around newer groff/man setups using a prettier apostrophe
+ that unfortunately does not quote anything when cut&pasting
+ examples to the shell -->
+<xsl:template name="escape.apostrophe">
+ <xsl:param name="content"/>
+ <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
+ <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$content"/>
+ <xsl:with-param name="target">'</xsl:with-param>
+ <xsl:with-param name="replacement">\(aq</xsl:with-param>
+ </xsl:call-template>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f88ed3e14d..7974717419 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ all::
#
# Define DOCBOOK_XSL_172 if you want to format man pages with DocBook XSL v1.72.
#
+# Define GNU_ROFF if your target system uses GNU groff. This forces
+# apostrophes to be ASCII so that cut&pasting examples to the shell
+# will work.
+#
# Define NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER if you cannot use Makefiles generated by perl's
# MakeMaker (e.g. using ActiveState under Cygwin).
#