URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60637>
Summary: [man] HTML rendering of multiple documents doesn't
make much sense
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Wed 19 May 2021 12:34:33 PM UTC
Category: Macro - man
Severity: 4 - Important
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
When rendering to the HTML device, we should consider making the man package
abort if it encounters another .TH call after the first; the output HTML in
its current form doesn't seem to even contemplate this scenario.
Input (degenerate but valid):
.TH foo 1 2021-05-19 "groff foo test suite"
.TH bar 1 2021-05-19 "groff bar test suite"
Output:
<!-- Creator : groff version 1.23.0.rc1.467-a060 -->
<!-- CreationDate: Wed May 19 22:32:07 2021 -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
h1 { text-align: center }
</style>
<title>foo</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">foo</h1>
<hr>
<p style="margin-top: 1em">bar</p>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
So the first page rendered gets the title tag and the h1 header, and
subsequent pages get...a paragraph.
That's total nonsense. We shouldn't do that.
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