[bug #57720] mandoc.tmac: Missing definition of some strings

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #57720 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

mandoc_char.7 is not one of groff's man pages.

> Subject: mandoc.tmac: Missing definition of some strings

It's also not (m)andoc.tmac's job to define strings like this.

Further, I can't reproduce these problems, though my installed copy of mandoc
is 1.14.4, not 1.14.5.

I do get some warnings, but they are due to bad tbl(1) construction and thus a
problem with the page source.


$ zcat $(man -w mandoc_char) | ./build/test-groff -b -ww -e -man -T utf8 -t
-z
tbl:<standard input>:215: error: excess data entry 'left single quotation
mark' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:217: error: excess data entry 'right single quotation
mark' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:219: error: excess data entry 'small tilde' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:221: error: excess data entry 'modifier letter
circumflex' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:233: error: excess data entry 'grave accent' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:235: error: excess data entry 'apostrophe' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:237: error: excess data entry 'tilde' discarded
tbl:<standard input>:239: error: excess data entry 'circumflex accent'
discarded


Finally, inspecting the page source I immediately see the following.


.\" Automatically generated from an mdoc input file.  Do not edit.


As the guy who had the bright idea to make a groff_man_style(7) page, I see
many things to make me cringe, but I don't a sufficient quantity of electronic
ink available at present to grapple with Ingo over the man(7) that mandoc(1)
produces.

To do so would also be somewhat beside the point--the limited, more portable
dialect of roff(7) we recommend for man(7) pages is an accommodation of
mandoc(1) itself as much as anything.

In any event, the page output is well-formed, readable, and the generate
source document remains miles ahead of most auto-generated output I've seen
generated by other tools.

I simply don't see how this report is applicable to the GNU roff project. 
Please file it against mandoc.

Closing as invalid.



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