At 2018-11-09T21:38:46+0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:30:42PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > $ for F in $(man -w tfmtodit hpftodit afmtodit); do lexgrog "$F"; zcat "$F"
> > | sed -n '3,4 {/\\-/p}'; done
> > /usr/share/man/man1/tfmtodit.1.gz: "tfmtodit - create font files for use
> > with groff - Tdvi"
> > tfmtodit \- create font files for use with groff \-Tdvi
> > /usr/share/man/man1/hpftodit.1.gz: "hpftodit - create font description
> > files for use with groff - Tlj4"
> > hpftodit \- create font description files for use with groff \-Tlj4
> > /usr/share/man/man1/afmtodit.1.gz: "afmtodit - create font files for use
> > with groff - Tps and - Tpdf"
> > afmtodit \- create font files for use with groff \-Tps and \-Tpdf
>
> Some day I may run across whoever decided that it was a good idea for
> man to have to parse a subset of *roff input in order to identify pages,
> and have some Stern Words with them about the wisdom of that design
> decision.I'll contribute some stern words of my own; it is truly a layering violation and a cruel one, at that. > I think I've hacked this into shape: > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=95023279b69986a9c1fee841b2c626ae3973205c Ah! Had I bothered to find out you were maintaining man-db on Savannah, I'd have gone straight there. As you may know, I have an account there. :) > $ for F in $(man -w tfmtodit hpftodit afmtodit); do src/lexgrog "$F"; done > /usr/share/man/man1/tfmtodit.1.gz: "tfmtodit - create font files for use > with groff -Tdvi" > /usr/share/man/man1/hpftodit.1.gz: "hpftodit - create font description > files for use with groff -Tlj4" > /usr/share/man/man1/afmtodit.1.gz: "afmtodit - create font files for use > with groff -Tps and -Tpdf" Looks good to me! Thank you! Regards, Branden
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