Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:48:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Jens.Schweikhardt@marconi.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/29479: Messed up SYNOPSIS in some on-line man pages Message-ID: <200108060648.f766mma00607@bk4957.de.marconicomms.com>
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>Number: 29479
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Messed up SYNOPSIS in some on-line man pages
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 05 23:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jens Schweikhardt
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Marconi
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
The SYNOPSIS section of some man pages accessible via
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi is messed up. In particular,
it does seem to have problems with backspacing/overstriking.
In addition, hard line breaks in the SYNOPSIS seem to be ignored.
>How-To-Repeat:
Click on http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kill&sektion=1
The SYNOPSIS looks like this, note the repeated characters:
SYNOPSIS
k ki il ll l [- -s s signal_name] pid ... kill -l [exit_status] kill -signal_n na am me e
pid ... kill -signal_n nu um mb be er r pid ...
Note also the vanished line breaks, i.e. on my local system kill(1)
reads
SYNOPSIS
kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
kill -l [exit_status]
kill -signal_name pid ...
kill -signal_number pid ...
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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