Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> skribis:
> On 2018-03-13 22:34, l...@gnu.org wrote: >>> However, even longer man pages such as bash(1) render without fail, so >>> there might be something special about the two examples above that >>> triggers this behaviour. >> >> I suspect something wrong with ‘knot.conf.5.gz’, but I don’t have >> tangible evidence. > > Yup, that's about as far as I got before giving up and submitting to > the wisdom of the crowd. We need someone who knows something — > anything — about man pages, or someone who can reproduce this on > another distro. I had no luck searching for similar bug reports. > > ...or do you mean with the knot.conf page *specifically*, as opposed > to the rofi one? Is your suspicion based on something you saw in > there? I didn’t check the rofi one. The knot.conf one is generated by some “docutils”, a reStructuredText thing, which is where my unfounded suspicion comes from. :-) We’d need to analyze the nroff “code” in there to understand what’s going on. > For the record: apparently this doesn't happen on Debian, according to > some fellow on IRC named ‘civodul’. There goes my brief hope that this > was an (exclusively) upstream problem after all. I think I know that person. ;-) Perhaps we could check how Debian generates the page. Do they have a patch for “docutils”? Should we try with a different version to see if that helps? Cheers, Ludo’.
