Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:30:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: jmutter@netwalk.com Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man pages aren't formatting correctly - Message-ID: <199904022030.VAA03172@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:27:51 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904020125030.44361-200000@insomnia.local.net>
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> :> Can anyone help with this one?
> :>
> :> bash-2.02$ man csh
> :> The is a command language interpreter incorporating a history
> :> mechanism (see job control facilities (see interactive file name
> :> and user name completion (see and a C-like syntax. It is used
> :> both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command
> :> processor. If the first argument (argument 0) to the shell is
> :> then this is a login shell. A login shell also can be specified
> :> by invoking the shell with the flag as the only argument. The
> :> rest of the flag arguments are interpreted as follows: This flag
> :> forces a ``break'' from option processing, causing any further
> :> <snipped - you get the point>
> :
> : Man pages are always formatted justified as shown above.
> :
> Maybe I should have included the entire page, I didn't think that that
> would be necessary. The problem is that these pages are missing
> things like newlines, highlighting, tabs, etc... Everything that makes
> them readable.
>
> See the attached 'csh.manpage' for an example.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jim
[.....]
The whole page was probably a bit too much ;-}
I don't know what your problem is, but the page looks like it's been
processed with the wrong macro package. Check out the difference
when you
cd /usr/share/man/man8
gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii | more
as distinct from the more expected
cd /usr/share/man/man8
gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii -mandoc | more
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