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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2021-07-27 11:25:02 +0200
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2021-08-03 20:43:54 +0200
commit702fd5193030cae25c199e7c4dba7a9be1ba89cc (patch)
tree0d14b58d285b15724b3d5a643b4425d4f2b51f25 /sfeed.5
parent7199cd10a97e9d648b594cf6327f9ed7fa732527 (diff)
man page improvements
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd July 6, 2021
+.Dd July 29, 2021
.Dt SFEED 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
.Xr sfeed 1
writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.
.Sh TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS
-The items are output per line in a TSV-like format.
+The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format.
.Pp
-The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs, all
-whitespace characters are replaced by a single space character.
+For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a
+SPACE character.
Control characters are removed.
.Pp
-The content field can contain newlines and is escaped.
+The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped.
TABs, newlines and '\\' are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n'
and '\\\\'.
Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed.
@@ -49,7 +49,5 @@ Item, categories, multiple values are separated by |.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org
.Sh CAVEATS
-If a timezone is not in the RFC-822 or RFC-3339 format it is not supported and
-the UNIX timestamp is interpreted as UTC+0.
-.Pp
-HTML in titles is treated as plain-text.
+If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC822 or RFC3339 format it
+is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.