> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:32:39 -0600 > From: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> > > > If these problems have gone unraised by Texinfo users for a long time, > my surmise is that users of info(1), and of GNU Emacs's WoMan man > browser, have such low expectations of their rendering that they > disregard any formatting errors they see. I observe that, for example, > WoMaN, which apparently attempts to parse man(7) document input for > itself instead of entrusting it to a man(1) program or to the nroff > command, misrenders `\c` and `\:` escape sequences.[9]
Your surmise is evidently based on incomplete or inaccurate information. The WoMan package in Emacs is deprecated, have not seen any significant maintenance for many years, and as result doesn't support many directives used in modern man pages. The supported Emacs command to read man pages is "M-x man", which runs the system's 'man' command, and then displays what that produces. (The Emacs Info reader also doesn't show man pages like the stand-alone Info reader from Texinfo does.)
