michelle olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Joerg, > > For the overprinting and too many line breaks issues, can you provide > the specific pages that have this problem as you find them? We can fix > it if we know which pages have the problem.
I am not sure whether this problem may occur for you. It did occur for me after I added a correctly formatted part (according to man -s 5 man) to the OPTIONS part of a man page. I had to completely reformat the whole OPTIONS part in order to make it work again. The corrected sccs-admin.1 man page is in ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/schily-2008-01-10.tar.bz2 > I realize that the roff pages are difficult for you to edit, we are > working hard to transition to an XML man page gate on opensolaris.org. > After we complete that work, you can clone a workspace with exact same > sources as we use inside Sun. > > Of course, then we will have to work on new tools for processing to > nroff or new command to read XML... I appreciate your patience, help, > and advice on this strategy. If I create portable software from previously Solaris only software, I need to take care about usability of man pages on other platforms too. The only format that is portable to all platforms seems to be troff. BTW: Why did Sun switch to XML? J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
