looks like a groff version/installation difference could be in nroff itself or the -man macros
works ok on redhadt linux and solaris (not groff based) fails like your description on suse and ubuntu at issue is the ast optget --nroff .OP definition maybe that conflicts with a -man directive in the installations that fail? On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:19:21 +0100 j. van den hoff wrote: > hi, > I'm trying to come to terms with the details of `getopts'. I managed to > get a correctly formatted manpage via > myscript --man > however, using > myscript --nroff 2>&1 |nroff -man > does not generate the same formatting. rather, line breaks (or, rather, > paragraph breaks) between option descriptions are missing, i.e. the second > option description starts somewhere in the middle of a line immediately > after the end of the previous option description (I'm using groff version > 1.21.). > I looked at the `--nroff' output generated `getopts', but do not remember > enough troff to modfiy the `.OP' macro quickly. > question: how can I enforce correctly formatted nroff -man output (or > troff, for that matter, in order to generate pdf-versions of the manpage)? > thanks, > joerg > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > ast-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
