Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: IMO, even better would be '-man' as that is what's passed to nroff to format a normal man page. Well, '-m' is the flag and 'an' in the name of the macro package it's using, so 'an' isn't incorrect here, it's just not very clear.

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

I will improve that error message. Thanks. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

Chong Yidong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That man page is written in doc rather than in an. Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros and give a meaningful error message? I checked in the test suggested by James Cloos. So now it says:

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros and give a meaningful error message? I checked in the test suggested by James Cloos. Thank you. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That man page is written in doc rather than in an. Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros and give a meaningful error message? I checked in the test suggested by James Cloos. ___

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

That man page is written in doc rather than in an. Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros and give a meaningful error message? ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

RMS == Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RMS Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros RMS and give a meaningful error message? Grog(1) (part of groff) uses this logic to guess -man macros: if: any line matches /^\.SH[\s\n]/ and if any (other) line matches

'woman' can't format the ssh man page

I don't know if this has been reported before - it's a bug that I've become so used to that I almost don't notice myself working around it any more... Typing: M-x woman RET ssh RET should display the 'ssh' man page, but instead I see only parts of it, strangely formatted. I just noticed

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

That man page is written in doc rather than in an. With modern groff you have to pass -man-old to get the old an macros w/o also supporting the newer doc macros. If you do that with ssh.1 you see the same results as woman shows. This means that what woman needs is support for the doc macro set.

Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

Chris Moore wrote: I don't know if this has been reported before - it's a bug that I've become so used to that I almost don't notice myself working around it any more... Ditto. I reported the issue with the very same manpage in May 2004: