On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 14:50:48 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Does your man(1) use mdocml by default?
According to /etc/man.confB9, yes, it does. > Not all manual pages using mdoc macros are mdocml compatible. > Ib> start, before it was included in any OS/distribution at all. > Maybe it should have suitable mechanisms to discern whether > it can handle such a manual page or not. > > The existence of a line consisting only of two dots is usually > a good indicator for the presence of custom macros. A line > consisting only of a dot, a backslash and a closing curly brace > (b Interesting. Would be nice to have it fall back to something sensible in this case. > (While here, could TNF please use \*(Gt instead of \*[Gt] so > their manpages are nroff compatible, since two-character named > references can be written either way?) As someone who doesn't really know much about roff, how do they differ? Best regards, Moritz B9: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/etc/man.conf?rev=1.31&content-type=text/plain&only_with_tag=MAIN
