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bug#7843: 24.0.50; woman leaves \& in man page header
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7843: 24.0.50; woman leaves \& in man page header |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:35:41 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:07:57 -0400
> Cc: 7843@debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
>
> It seems to cause problems. man.1 (attached) renders worse in the
> current trunk than in Emacs 23.3. The woman-log buffer has many entries
> that do not appear in 23.3:
>
> ** Escape ignored: \- -> -
> [many times]
> ** Escape ignored: \f -> f
> [many times]
> ** .. request ignored!
> [several times]
> ** Numeric/register argument error: w'man 'u
My version of Groff (1.19) also emits quite a bit of diagnostics for
that man page.
> An example of a section that renders worse is
>
> The following conventions apply to the SYNOPSIS section and
> can be used as a guide in other sections.
>
> fBbold textfR@T{
> type exactly as shown.
> T}
So does Groff (invoked by my clone of `man'):
Reformatting page. Wait...tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:182: unrecognised format `1'
tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:182: giving up on this table
tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:243: unrecognised format `\'
tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:243: giving up on this table