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authorBrendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>2013-06-04 22:18:18 +1000
committerBrendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>2013-06-04 22:18:18 +1000
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Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
generated output for a section
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@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ This file documents the GNU @command{help2man} command which produces
simple manual pages from the @samp{--help} and @samp{--version} output
of other commands.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,
+2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ by the Foundation.
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010,
+2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ Other sections are prepended to the automatically produced output for
the standard sections given above, or included at @emph{other} (above)
in the order they were encountered in the include file.
+Placement of the text within the section may be explicity requested by
+using the syntax @samp{[<name]}, @samp{[=name]} or @samp{[>name]} to
+place the additional text before, in place of, or after the default
+output respectively.
+
@node Makefile usage
@chapter Using @command{help2man} With @command{make}