On 18/02/2014 07:56, Doran Kangwai wrote: > When I use xman 1.1.3-1 to view man pages it renders the pages as > postscript. It seems to omit the step to process the PS.
Close, but not quite right. groff is not being given the -T option to set the output format, so it's producing the default, ps > So I see stuff like this > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: groff version 1.22.2 > ... > ... > > Using man to display the page works fine. > > When I use xman 1.1.2-1 the man page is also rendered correctly. Thanks for reporting this problem, and the clear reproduction steps. I can reproduce the problem, and bisecting points to this commit [1], which changes the formatting command used by xman. Yaakov, Attached is trivial patch to fix. If it looks good to you can you apply and rebuild xman? [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xman/commit/?id=d25a3b87ce9fdf950b42f45b644242d72e7167b3
>From ea0ecbfa007e03e29f80f976472a28e37cf59931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:51:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH app/xman] Use same FORMAT command on cygwin as on linux in HANDLE_ROFFSEQ case as well Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> --- vendor.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vendor.h b/vendor.h index 548ded6..06df38f 100644 --- a/vendor.h +++ b/vendor.h @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ from the X Consortium. # define REFER "refer" # if defined(CSRG_BASED) # define FORMAT "nroff -mandoc" -# elif defined(linux) +# elif defined(linux) || defined(__CYGWIN__) # define FORMAT "GROFF_NO_SGR= groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc" # elif defined(__DARWIN__) # define FORMAT "nroff -man" -- 1.8.3.4
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