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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