On Nov 18, 2015, at 3:07 PM, j. van den hoff wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:01:32 +0100, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> >> On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:43 PM, j. van den hoff wrote: >> >>> I see the following output from `man groff_char' with version 1.22.3 of >>> `groff' under macos 10.10.5: >>> >>> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: unrecognised format `O' >>> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: giving up on this table >>> >>> (many more similar lines following) >>> >>> and the finally appearing manpage indeed does not contain the tables >>> listing the glyphs as it should. any ideas? >> >> I can confirm that behavior under 10.11.1 with the groff port installed. >> >> I guess OS X's man program is not able to read the groff port's manpage. >> >> Installing the man port seems to work around this problem. Is that >> satisfactory? > > ah yes, never occured to me tht there might be a man port as well. thank > you for this solution. regarding "satisfactory": for my personal use, yes > it is. generally, I'd say no, since it seems osx's man does something > wrong/non-canonical, no?
If that's true, that would be an OS X bug which you would need to report to Apple. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
