Unfortunately I am not an expert in nroff or tbl either. I usually just add information to the man page by analogy with the old text.
On сб, 16 сент. 2017, 23:53 Nate Sutton <n...@sutton.me> wrote: > On lftp 4.8.0 installed via homebrew on OSX 10.11.6, I get a bunch of > errors trying to load the manpage and I think it prevents some information > from being displayed. The errors look like this: > > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:171: unrecognised format `<' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:171: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:190: `p' modifier must be followed by number > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:190: unrecognised format `h' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:190: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:220: unrecognised format `h' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:220: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:243: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:243: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:303: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:303: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:323: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:323: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:364: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:364: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:398: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:398: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:427: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:427: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:454: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:454: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:484: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:484: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:545: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:545: giving up on this table > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:571: unrecognised format `\' > /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:571: giving up on this table > > Looking at the source of lftp.1, the errors don't seem to match up to the > text. > > I don't understand the manpage format but I suspect OSX is using a crappy, > old tbl, like it does with other tools. `tbl -v` shows "GNU tbl (groff) > version 1.19.2". I'm not sure if this is something you're interesting in > fixing but it would be nice to have the full manpage on osx. > > > _______________________________________________ > lftp mailing list > lftp@uniyar.ac.ru > http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp >
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