Wolfgang Mueller <v...@vehk.de> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 16:32:02 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > If you think about replacing "man" by "mandoc", please keep in mind that > > "mandoc" displays many of the man pages incorrectly. > > > > This is caused by the fact that tables are not correctly understood by > > mandoc. > > Could you give me some example man pages for this? All tables I have > found so far (about one or two, since I don't know exactly where to > look) display correctly for me in mandoc. In any case, I was not aware > of this, so thanks for mentioning.
Some time ago, I did an automated 100% test with all Solaris man pages: https://sourceforge.net/p/schillix-on/schillix-on/ci/default/tree/usr/src/man/ and mandoc failed miserably with nearly all of the man pages. I do no longer remember what triggered the problem. Very simple tables are working. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
