Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:54:10 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 290801] date(1) does not render correctly on man.freebsd.org Message-ID: <bug-290801-9-YPd6YTZJsz@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-290801-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-290801-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D290801 --- Comment #4 from B.S. <bigsneaky@duck.com> --- I believe man.freebsd.org uses groff(1) (version 1.23.0?) which struggles w= ith %N presumably as it is a references & citations macro for issue number: see https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dgroff_mdoc=20 To replicate the website's History section error: $ groff -mdoc -T html dat= e.1 > <p style=3D"margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">The > <b>−I</b> flag was added in FreeBSD 12.0.</p> >=20 > <p style=3D"margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">The > ‘conversion specification was added in FreeBSD’ Or in plain ASCII, generating an mdoc warning: $ groff -a -mdoc=20=20 > The <->I flag was added in FreeBSD 12.0. > mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Li (#618) > Usage: .%N issue_number ... (#618) > The <oq>conversion specification was added in FreeBSD<cq> While mandoc(1) generates the desired html, it still warns with -Tlint: $ mandoc -Tlint date.1 > mandoc: date.1:146:8: WARNING: skipping empty macro: No > mandoc: date.1:331:5: WARNING: macro neither callable nor escaped: %N > mandoc: date.1:594:5: WARNING: macro neither callable nor escaped: %N > mandoc: date.1:597:5: WARNING: macro neither callable nor escaped: %N > mandoc: date.1:618:5: WARNING: macro neither callable nor escaped: %N > mandoc: date.1:198:2: STYLE: useless macro: Tn > mandoc: date.1:511:2: STYLE: useless macro: Tn --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.=
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