On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > You can't see images with man... sure, why would you want to do that? > What manpage includes images? In HTML, tables are represented with > tables. Fix whatever is generating images instead.
Regrettably, groff's HTML backend does generate images for tbl markup at the moment. Nevertheless, this is an inaccurate assessment of the problem. Equations using the 'eqn' preprocessor are rendered using images in HTML output, and this is useful in manual pages in certain fields. While groff does support MathML as well, many simpler browsers don't support it, so it's not always a reasonable option; and in particular man has no way at present to know that the configured browser is clever enough to understand MathML, so necessarily produces only the simpler formatting using images. The 'pic' preprocessor is also occasionally used in manual pages for good reasons, and is even less amenable to being rendered without images. I have no intention of making man closed-minded as to the preprocessors that authors are permitted to use in manual pages. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
