Your message dated Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:12:20 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#525179: manpages: ascii(7) extra tables are unreadable
if rendered as Postscript
has caused the Debian Bug report #525179,
regarding manpages: ascii(7) extra tables are unreadable if rendered as
Postscript
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Package: manpages
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
% man -Tps ascii > /tmp/q ; gv /tmp/q
The subsection which starts "For convenience, let us give more
compact tables in hex and decimal" only renders well to terminals.
Postscript (and I guess HTML, PDF etc) versions have unreadable garbage
here, since it's just ASCII art.
I enclose a patch which simply switches to courier for the tables.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.7 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
manpages depends on no packages.
manpages recommends no packages.
Versions of packages manpages suggests:
ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
--- ascii.7 2009/04/22 18:18:24 1.1
+++ ascii.7 2009/04/22 18:29:45
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" Modified 1999-08-08 by Michael Haardt ([email protected])
.\" Modified 2004-04-01 by aeb
.\"
-.TH ASCII 7 2008-06-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ASCII 7 2009-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ascii \- the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -123,10 +123,13 @@
\}
.SS Tables
For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal.
-.sp
+.PP
.nf
+.if t \{\
+.ft CW
+\}
2 3 4 5 6 7 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
- ------------- ---------------------------------
+-------------- ----------------------------------
0: 0 @ P \` p 0: ( 2 < F P Z d n x
1: ! 1 A Q a q 1: ) 3 = G Q [ e o y
2: " 2 B R b r 2: * 4 > H R \e f p z
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Version: 3.19-1
Hi, this bug has been fixed upstream in 3.19.
Denis
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