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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-04-10 19:51:18 +0200
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-04-10 19:51:18 +0200
commiteb6fe6f11a14afc82cd0039d88759d6c1c524d2f (patch)
tree641ae3fc5f338e359addb33619f5ee98686e1575 /sfeed.1
parent969ec64ef3195e00ae597e49a39e804bb6ce6464 (diff)
improve documentation, add sfeed(5) for the file format
separate sfeed(5) page for just the feed file format.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sfeed.1 b/sfeed.1
index 0895dc7..28315cc 100644
--- a/sfeed.1
+++ b/sfeed.1
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ recommended to always have absolute urls in your feeds.
.Sh TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS
The items are saved in a TSV-like format.
.Pp
-The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs. All
-whitespace is replaced by a single space character. Control characters are
-removed.
+The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs, all
+whitespace characters are replaced by a single space character. Control
+characters are removed.
.Pp
The content field can contain newlines and is escaped. TABs, newlines and '\\'
-are escaped with '\\', so: '\\n', '\\t', and '\\\\'. Other whitespace
+are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n' and '\\\\'. Other whitespace
characters except space are removed. Control characters are removed.
.Pp
The order and format of the fields are:
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The order and format of the fields are:
.It item timestamp
UNIX timestamp in UTC+0, empty on parse failure.
.It item title
-Title text, HTML in titles is treated as plain-text (on purpose).
+Title text, HTML in titles is treated as plain-text.
.It item link
Absolute url, unsafe characters are encoded.
.It item content
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ Item author.
.Sh CAVEATS
if a timezone is not supported (non-RFC-822) the UNIX timestamp is interpreted
as UTC+0.
-HTML in titles is treated as plain-text (on purpose).
+HTML in titles is treated as plain-text.