Fix the escaping of leading dots in lines that start with

a widget name, so that nroff doesn't mistake it as a non-existing macro
and skips the entire line

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b59cb29..a969a2b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-11-17  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>
+
+	* doc/pack.n: Fix the escaping of leading dots in lines that start with
+	a widget name, so that nroff doesn't mistake it as a non-existing macro
+	and skips the entire line.
+
 2011-11-17  Alexandre Ferrieux  <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* generic/tkCanvas.c: [Bug 3437816]: Missing TCL_ERROR return
diff --git a/doc/pack.n b/doc/pack.n
index 33c8203..13c9e0f 100644
--- a/doc/pack.n
+++ b/doc/pack.n
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ label .b \-text "This widget is at the bottom" \-bg green
 label .l \-text "Left\\nHand\\nSide"
 label .r \-text "Right\\nHand\\nSide"
 text .mid
-\.mid insert end "This layout is like Java's BorderLayout"
+\&.mid insert end "This layout is like Java's BorderLayout"
 # Lay them out
 \fBpack\fR .t   \-side top    \-fill x
 \fBpack\fR .b   \-side bottom \-fill x