Re: Cannot typeset tmac/groff_mdoc.n

[Gaius Mulley]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> For this reason grohtml is still tagged as `beta code'.
>
> Additionally, the mdoc package has, contrary to ms or man, not been
> prepared for proper grohtml support yet.  On the other hand, there are
> still some bugs directly in grohtml.

>
> In case you are interested in the latter, it would be of great help if
> you can construct minimal documents which exhibit erroneous behaviour,
> and submit them as individual bug reports to Savannah so that at least
> the problems get collected at a central place.

Hi,

this would be extremely useful.  The smaller the better, I might have
some time this summer to re-examine these pending bugs.  I think a
good plan would be to introduce a dejagnu regression test for groff
(grohtml) - I have an old patch which would be a starting point

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2004-10/msg00006.html

even if all of it requires rewriting.

At least when this is done developers can perform sanity checks
without having to eyeball a number of files.  The regression tests
iirc checked that tags were emitted on the correct vertical alignment
(ie the ditroff intermediate tags were correct).  The actual
post-grohtml would probably need eyeballing - although it would be
possible to script some of this as well.  But the ditroff tag
generation is the hardest to get correct.

regards,
Gaius

> Submitting patches of course is highly welcomed too (for example,
> to check the HTML stuff in `s.tmac' or `an-old.tmac' and do
> something similar in `doc.tmac' and its related files).
>
>
>     Werner