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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:39:53 +0900 (JST)
From:      akr@m17n.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/23585: formatting preprocessor problem for compressed manuals.
Message-ID:  <20001216153953.05A4F47B@flux.etl.go.jp>
Resent-Message-ID: <200012161540.eBGFe1D92922@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         23585
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       proper preprocessors are not used for online manual formatting.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 16 07:40:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tanaka Akira
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
m17n
>Environment:

FreeBSD flux 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #1: Sun Sep  3 01:52:56 JST 2000     akr@flux:/usr/src/sys/compile/AKR  i386

>Description:

/usr/bin/man uses non-suitable preprocessor to format
/usr/X11R6/man/man3/XAllocColor.3.gz.  The first line of
XAllocColor.3 is follows.

  '\" e

This shows it should be processed by neqn. (cf. man(7))  But
/usr/bin/man uses tbl.  So, eqn directive is remained to formatted
text as `delim %%'.

In general, it seems that man command uses only tbl for compressed
manual entries.

>How-To-Repeat:

% man XAllocColor
...
       delim %% The XAllocColorCells function allocates
...

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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