On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 15:46:21 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Indeed. Maybe there could be a grep or, in the case of compressed > manpages (which werenb> some kind of bufferingb How about fixing mdocml to execute nroff in case it doesn't understand a manual page, in the hope that nroff does a better job at it? Of course, the manpage could be "genuinely invalid", but I'd trust a real roff interpreter to produce more accurate results.
> \*[foo] is a GNU groff extension to have arbitrarily-long named > strings, whereas \*X and \*(XY are the standard nroff/troff/ditroff > string named references (string, macro, register, etc. names are > either one or two characters in classic roff). I see. Thanks for the explaination. Moritz
