Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:47:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: man(1) Message-ID: <20040804124756.GA25436@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040804121525.GA2273@luke.immure.com> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> <20040804115343.GC41839@eddie.nitro.dk> <20040804121525.GA2273@luke.immure.com>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:15:25AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:53:44PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2004.08.04 10:35:32 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > > > > > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh al= ias > > > > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' : > > > > > > > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less > > > > > > > You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output. (-man > > > or -mandoc doesn't matter.) > >=20 > > OK, I will update my alias :). > >=20 > > So the most correct command would be: > >=20 > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mtty-char -man >=20 > What's wrong with: >=20 > nroff -man >=20 In most cases it will do, but nroff(1) doesn't provide an option to tell groff(1) to preprocess with eqn(1), and some manpages require preprocessing with it. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBENr8qRfpzJluFF4RAhDMAJ9ZXlMt0k47pWEU1ZrHcYZu4WFPuwCgispt shyUey5uXdblpHKA2HrBZqg= =w27q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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