Re: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered

[G. Branden Robinson]

[looping groff@gnu discussion list]

At 2023-02-25T13:53:35-0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > Just another data point for issues with long -man page multi-"page"
> > tables not rendering on non-tty devices/file formats.
[...]
> Still issues with latest man/tbl/groff-rc3 rendering of long tables on
> HTML outputs.

Unfortunately, this is not a surprise.  It also is not a regression
since groff 1.22.4, at least not for me--if you have a groff that
handles this correctly, I'm intensely interested to have a look at the
patches!

> Try any apropos {cp125{1,2},iso{-,_}8859-{1..16},latin{1..10}} charset
> encoding like man -H latin1 or groff equivalent and only last "page"
> of table renders.

Yes.  I don't have a better assessment for this situation than "it
sucks".

I think the best way forward on this is Savannah #60052.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60052

> At least man -Tps generates decent table content.

I believe _all_ other groff output devices render tbl(1) output
correctly, modulo some known minor nits in nroff mode, which can be seen
at the following URL.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?go_report=Apply&group=groff&func=browse&set=custom&msort=0&report_id=100&advsrch=0&status_id=1&resolution_id=0&assigned_to=0&category_id=109&bug_group_id=0&history_search=0&history_field=0&history_event=modified&history_date_dayfd=25&history_date_monthfd=2&history_date_yearfd=2023&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&boxoptionwanted=1#options

I'll file a ticket for this one though, as we don't seem to have one for
it.

Regards,
Branden

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