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.
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--- 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 (mich...@moria.de)
.\" 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
