Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 17:26:55 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum(4) and groff Message-ID: <200305181726.55633.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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When I ask for printer output from man page vinum(4) the font size in the last few pages is ever decreasing until at the end I get only a row of dots. Command used: # man -t 4 vinum > vinum4.ps The man page is dated October 5, 1999. The OS is FreeBSD 4.7 Stable from about mid February. Exploring the man page after decompressing with zcat I find entries: .if t .ps -3 followed some time later by: .if t .ps which I understand should reduce the font size and later return to the previous size. If I substitute: .if t .ps +3 for the lines using .ps without arguments the results look correct. So it seems the previous size is not being restored as it should be. However a simple test of a minimal file: <quote> abracadabra .ps -3 abracadabra .ps abracadabra </quote> seems to produce the expected result when processed with groff. It would seem that intervening commands in the vinum page is upsetting the process. Am I doing something foolish or do I have a bug which should be reported somewhere? Malcolmhelp
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