Bug 23585
| Summary: | proper preprocessors are not used for online manual formatting. | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | akr <akr> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | ru <ru> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.0-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru I will teach man(1) how to look inside compressed files. State Changed From-To: open->feedback man(1) now looks inside compressed manuals for preprocessor directives: Revision Changes Path 1.28 +11 -5 src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/Makefile 1.38 +47 -67 src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Fix MFC'ed into 4.2-STABLE. |
/usr/bin/man uses non-suitable preprocessor to format /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XAllocColor.3.gz. The first line of XAllocColor.3 is follows. '\" e This shows it should be processed by neqn. (cf. man(7)) But /usr/bin/man uses tbl. So, eqn directive is remained to formatted text as `delim %%'. In general, it seems that man command uses only tbl for compressed manual entries. How-To-Repeat: % man XAllocColor ... delim %% The XAllocColorCells function allocates ...