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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2008-10-05 21:14:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2008-10-05 21:14:52 +0000 |
| commit | 941fe5c7634ecd8ac003e959283cac957b66abc2 (patch) | |
| tree | 95b9882349190f9e6833e0a10104248c1360a7de /prologue/typography.xml | |
| parent | a9836bc786cb1b696d627dacc18b1ee17ecf2599 (diff) | |
Add explaination of backslash in typography
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8579 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'prologue/typography.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/typography.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/typography.xml b/prologue/typography.xml index b4f4bf357..1492cd494 100644 --- a/prologue/typography.xml +++ b/prologue/typography.xml @@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ otherwise noted in the surrounding text. It is also used in the explanation sections to identify which of the commands is being referenced.</para> + <para>In some cases, a logical line is extended to two or more physical lines + with a backslash at the end of the line.</para> + +<screen role="nodump"><userinput>CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.18/configure \ + --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror</userinput></screen> + + <para>Note that the backslash must be followed by an immediate return. Other + whitespace charaters like spaces or tab characters will create incorrect + results.</para> + + + + <screen><computeroutput>install-info: unknown option '--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'</computeroutput></screen> <para>This form of text (fixed-width text) shows screen output, probably as |