On 2014-07-28, Magnus Höglund <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I try creating a simple man page using the -f manpage option to 
> a2x.py, the man page viewed by 'man' command does not contain any
> line breaks.

If you use the sample file:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc.1.txt

and the sample command:

 a2x --doctype manpage --format manpage asciidoc.1.txt 

and then look at the file with the man command:

 man ./asciidoc.1

Does it get formatted properly?

> How can this be?

You have showed us neither your input file nor the command you used to
process it.  Are we supposed to guess?  :)

> What kind of manpage format is generated by a2x.py ?

The normal kind: nroff/groff source that uses the "an" macro set.  I'm
a little puzzled why hyphens are always escaped in the output (I've
ever needed to do that in my hand-generated man file source), but it
works just fine.

> Could it be that the 'man' tool I am using doesn't recognize the format 
> that a2x produces??

Could be, but we don't know what 'man' tool you're using or how you're
invoking it.

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