Bug 25894
| Summary: | mdoc .Lb macro does not accept punctuation | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Peter Pentchev <roam> |
| Component: | gnu | Assignee: | ru <ru> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru I guess Ruslan tinkers with groff and -mdoc macros.. State Changed From-To: open->suspended If you look at the actual Lb sources, you will see the comment explaining this macro "does not handle punctuation" and "is really only intended for a standalone use". IOW, this macro is not parsed and is not callable. The good news are that this is fixed in -mdocNG, hence I put this in "suspended" pending the (RSN) new Groff release which will come with -mdocNG. State Changed From-To: suspended->analyzed Groff 1.17 has been imported into FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:50:18AM -0800, ru@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: mdoc .Lb macro does not accept punctuation > > If you look at the actual Lb sources, you will see the comment > explaining this macro "does not handle punctuation" and "is > really only intended for a standalone use". IOW, this macro > is not parsed and is not callable. > > The good news are that this is fixed in -mdocNG, hence I put > this in "suspended" pending the (RSN) new Groff release which > will come with -mdocNG. OK, this is indeed fixed in -mdocNG, or at least in what is on ref5 right now :) Thanks! Now it just needs MFC'ing, but I guess this could wait, judging from the amount of work you're doing on -mdocNG in -current - it seems it's not quite trivial ;) G'luck, Peter -- I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. State Changed From-To: analyzed->closed Groff 1.17 has been imported into FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. |
The mdoc.samples(7) manual page documents the .Lb macro as accepting more than one argument and then some punctuation; however, this does not seem to be the case. Fix: Wish I knew my way around groff macros :\ How-To-Repeat: [roam@ringworld:v0 ~]$ zcat /usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7.gz | groff -mdoc -Tascii | fgrep 'Usage: .Lb' Usage: .Lb argument ... { . , : ; ? ! ( ) [ ]} [roam@ringworld:v0 ~]$ echo '.Lb libmd .' | groff -mdoc -Tascii | uniq Usage: .Lb [library name] Message Digest (MD4, MD5, etc.) Support Library (libmd, -lmd) [roam@ringworld:v0 ~]$ This is so on both my Mar 17 -stable, the Mar 10 ref4.FreeBSD.org, and the Dec 12 freefall.FreeBSD.org.