I think we can close this issue. It works fine when I used a newer man/groff/nroff toolset.
But I needed to add --no-xmllint to compile your sample command. /Magnus Den tisdagen den 29:e juli 2014 kl. 00:24:44 UTC+2 skrev Grant Edwards: > > On 2014-07-28, Magnus Höglund <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'd like some JUNK > at FOOD ... and then I > want to > gmail.com be ALONE -- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
