Hi Chris,
Chris Bennett wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:19:49AM -0500:
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> OK, maybe "very ugly and wrong" is a bit harsh, but perldoc used to make
> those ugly titles
Right, and even groff-1.20.1 still did that, last t
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> - A few blank line differences, because mandoc handles blank lines
>in man(7) headers and footers like groff-1.20, not like 1.15.
> - Mandoc doesn't put an additional header/footer pair in the middle
>of the page.
>
Hi Chris,
Chris Bennett wrote on Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:26:01PM -0500:
> Older system with October 30 snapshot.
> Since there was a delay with snapshot packages,
> I built some ports while waiting, so I added groff.
> $ which nroff
> /usr/bin/nroff
Aha, you didn't remove base groff.
So now you
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:38:03AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Unfortunately, you are not saying how you set up the system
> showing these symptoms. Is it a fresh install from a snapshot
> after the groff removal from base? Or is it an older system
> upgraded with a recent snapsh
Hi Chris,
Chris Bennett wrote on Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:17:25PM -0500:
> Interested in the new mandoc changes,
Nice to hear that.
Feedback is always welcome.
> I was looking at a perl script I have with pod in it.
>
> perldoc script.pl produces a good output.
>
> perldoc manpage says perldoc
AFAIK nroff's gone from base too in addition to groff. I had to
install groff from ports for cmake and I see a nroff in
/usr/local/bin.
you might have to install groff from ports to get that nroff.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Bennett
wrote:
> Interested in the new mandoc changes, I was
Interested in the new mandoc changes, I was looking at a perl script I have
with pod in it.
perldoc script.pl produces a good output.
perldoc manpage says perldoc is equivalent to:
pod2man script.pl | nroff -man | $PAGER
but that produces a very ugly and wrong output.
Is the perldoc manpage in
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