Changeset 8579

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10/05/08 15:14:52 (2 months ago)
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bdubbs
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Add explaination of backslash in typography

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  • trunk/BOOK/prologue/typography.xml

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    2121  otherwise noted in the surrounding text. It is also used in the explanation 
    2222  sections to identify which of the commands is being referenced.</para> 
     23 
     24  <para>In some cases, a logical line is extended to two or more physical lines 
     25  with a backslash at the end of the line.</para> 
     26 
     27<screen role="nodump"><userinput>CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.18/configure \ 
     28  --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror</userinput></screen> 
     29 
     30  <para>Note that the backslash must be followed by an immediate return.  Other 
     31  whitespace charaters like spaces or tab characters will create incorrect 
     32  results.</para> 
     33 
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    2336 
    2437<screen><computeroutput>install-info: unknown option '--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'</computeroutput></screen>