[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: Added a manpage for ovs-bugtool

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Sep 25 02:56:56 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I don't quite follow the \fl suggestion.  An attempted
> fgrep "\fl" turned up nothing and it doesn't appear to have any visual
> affect on the resulting page.  What does it do?

That's a capital "I" not a lowercase "l".  It switches to an italic font,
which is used in manpages for metasyntactic variables.  man(1) has more
information on manpage conventions; man(7) has more information on man
syntax.




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