Hi Branden,
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 10:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> Hi Hugh,
>
> [...]
> So whether the man page is hand-crafted or generated from some other
> format at build time is not relevant. In fact, it's _meta_ irrelevant
> (if that's even a thing) because the only reason (apart
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 09:10, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> Your problem is that you need this line as the very first line of the
> page to instruct man(1) to run the tbl preprocessor:
>
> '\" t
>
> See https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/man-db/man.1.en.html#DEFAULTS
That does the trick. Thank you!
At 2023-08-17T01:37:52+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:08:18PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > [6] https://man.cx/grog
> >
> > I was going to link to
> > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/groff/grof.1.en.html here, but
> > the man page is missing!
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:08:18PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [6] https://man.cx/grog
>
> I was going to link to
> https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/groff/grof.1.en.html here, but
> the man page is missing! groff definitely ships it. Any advice?
Aside from the typo in
Hi Hugh,
At 2023-08-17T07:54:03+1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 03:39, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:29:45PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > > This all seems promising. Unfortunately, the man page is
> > > hand-crafted, not generated from another source,
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 07:54:03AM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> The man page in question -- ftlint.1 -- is in the freetype2-demos
> package [1], or you can get an online copy from [2].
>
> [1] /usr/share/man/man1/ftlint.1.gz
> [2]
>
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 03:39, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:29:45PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > This all seems promising. Unfortunately, the man page is hand-crafted,
> > not generated from another source, so groff is never invoked, and no
> > other documents are
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:29:45PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> This all seems promising. Unfortunately, the man page is hand-crafted,
> not generated from another source, so groff is never invoked, and no
> other documents are referenced in the file.
groff must be run somewhere, because you're
Hi Branden,
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 00:30, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> Hi Hugh,
>
> I work on groff upstream.
Perfect :-)
> At 2023-08-15T22:46:30+1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > groff-message an.tmac::66: warning: tbl preprocessor
> > failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not
Hi Colin,
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 23:55, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:46:30PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > Lintian has recently started emitting this groff warning for ftlint.1
> > in freetype-demos as part of its man pages check:
> >
> > groff-message an.tmac::66:
Hi Hugh,
I work on groff upstream.
At 2023-08-15T22:46:30+1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> groff-message an.tmac::66: warning: tbl preprocessor
> failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE
> macro called with TW register undefined)
>
> It seems TW is not defined in the
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:46:30PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> Lintian has recently started emitting this groff warning for ftlint.1
> in freetype-demos as part of its man pages check:
>
> groff-message an.tmac::66: warning: tbl preprocessor
> failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s)
Lintian has recently started emitting this groff warning for ftlint.1
in freetype-demos as part of its man pages check:
groff-message an.tmac::66: warning: tbl preprocessor
failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE
macro called with TW register undefined)
It seems TW
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