On Mar 07 23:13:57, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > warning: file `man1/sox.1', around line 2667: table wider than line width
> > grotty:<standard input> (man1/sox.1):47303: character above first line
> > discarded
>
> These are *not* mandoc(1) glitches, but groff error messages
> produced by grotty(1).
Sorry; by this unfortunate wording, I didn't mean that
these are glitches of mandoc itself of course.
> > What do? Shall I persuade upstream to wrap the lines
> > to make mandoc happy? Or provide a patch? (That would
> > be a good excuse to finally learn the man(doc) syntax.)
>
> Please don't, this is a tricky case and not the right place
> to start learning man(7) and tbl(7). Don't try to talk to
> upstream about so difficult stuff; making good recommendations
> upstream requires thorough knowledge in this case, which you
> don't appear to have yet.
Exactly; I was hoping to get an attention
of someone man/mandoc/groff-savvy.
> These pages exhibit groff bugs,
> mandoc bugs *and* questionable formatting - to talk to upstream,
> you must be able to tell apart the three classes of problems,
> or you would cause more confusion than help.
> Since groff(1) actually wraps the tables better than mandoc(1),
> even though it complains, i suggest to keep USE_GROFF
> and simply ignore the groff warnings in this particular case.
OK. Thanks for the insight.
So, appart from this:
any comments to the port update?
Jan
