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Wolfgang Mueller <vehk@××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 16:32:02 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> > If you think about replacing "man" by "mandoc", please keep in mind that |
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> > "mandoc" displays many of the man pages incorrectly. |
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> > This is caused by the fact that tables are not correctly understood by mandoc. |
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> Could you give me some example man pages for this? All tables I have |
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> found so far (about one or two, since I don't know exactly where to |
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> look) display correctly for me in mandoc. In any case, I was not aware |
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> of this, so thanks for mentioning. |
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Some time ago, I did an automated 100% test with all Solaris man pages: |
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https://sourceforge.net/p/schillix-on/schillix-on/ci/default/tree/usr/src/man/ |
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and mandoc failed miserably with nearly all of the man pages. |
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I do no longer remember what triggered the problem. Very simple tables are |
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working. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' |
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