Added a new config directive `html-local-head', which permits me to

[sgt/halibut] / doc / running.but

diff --git a/doc/running.but b/doc/running.but
index e0c0e78..37e36f3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/running.but
+++ b/doc/running.but
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 \C{running} Running Halibut
 
 \I{running Halibut}In the simplest case, running Halibut is very
-simple. You provide a set of input files on its \i{command line},
-and it produces a set of output files.
+easy. You provide a set of input files on its \i{command line}, and
+it produces a set of output files.
 
-\c $ halibut intro.but getting-started.but reference.but index.but
-\e   bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
+\c $ halibut intro.but gettingstarted.but reference.but index.but
+\e   bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
 
 This will generate a large set of \i{output files}:
 
@@ -124,13 +124,13 @@ additional files \c{output.info-1}, \c{output.info-2} and so on.
 \dt \i\cw{--ps}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
 
 \dd Specifies that you want to generate PostScript output. You
-can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--man=myfile.ps}), in
+can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--ps=myfile.ps}), in
 which case Halibut will change the name of the output file as well.
 
 \dt \i\cw{--pdf}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
 
 \dd Specifies that you want to generate PDF output. You
-can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--man=myfile.pdf}), in
+can optionally specify a file name (e.g. \c{--pdf=myfile.pdf}), in
 which case Halibut will change the name of the output file as well.
 
 If you do not specify any of the above options, Halibut will simply
@@ -155,6 +155,14 @@ will translate into the configuration directive
 
 \c \cfg{text-section-align}{2}{leftplus}
 
+(Note that your shell may also take an interest in backslashes,
+particularly under Unix. You may find that the backslash with which
+you escape a colon must be doubled in order to make the shell pass
+it to Halibut at all, and to pass a doubled backslash to Halibut you
+might have to type four backslashes on your shell command line. This
+is not part of Halibut's own behaviour, and it cannot do anything
+about it.)
+
 }
 
 The options which set the output file names actually work by