Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:14:12 +0100 From: Kamil Rytarowski <ka...@netbsd.org> Message-ID: <ca45be8b-018c-ef0f-3330-14e4785eb...@netbsd.org>
| If you still can find any man-page that is unsupported by mandoc, please | let me know and I will report it. That was done (by someone else, sorry, I have forgotten who that was) earlier in this thread. groff_char(7) Because it is an externally maintained man page, we cannot just alter its format, and I really don't think you're going to convince anyone to make mandoc handle: . di CC . ie c\\$3 \{\ . nop \\&\\$3\c . \" The \x values assure that oversized symbols don't . \" overlap vertically. The constant 1.5p is heuristic. . nop \x'(\w'('*0 - ((\\n[.cht]u - \\n[rst]u - 1.5p) >? 0))'\c . nop \x'((\\n[.cdp]u + \\n[rsb]u - 1.5p) >? 0)'\c . nop \h'(\\n[c1]u - \\n[.k]u)'\\*[CH]\c . nop \h'(\\n[c2]u - \\n[.k]u)'\\$2\c . \} . el \{\ . nop (N/A)\c . nop \h'(\\n[c1]u - \\n[.k]u)'\\*[CH]\c . \} . nop \h'(\\n[c3]u - \\n[.k]u)'\\$4\c . nop \h'(\\n[c4]u - \\n[.k]u)'\\$5\c . br . di [that's just one piece of a larger macro definition in that page] On the other hand, after a simple groff -man -T ascii /usr/share/man/man7/groff_char.7 \ > /usr/share/man/cat7/groff_char.7 I now have a man page I can (better anyway) read. If I had the time to read up on all the groff -T options, it would probably be possible yo make something quite readable. | Removal of the whole cat-pages support was implied It wasn't. | and intended in my initial proposal. That may have been, but that intent wasn't conveyed. | This was intended to be removed too. Also what's the point of catman(8) | if cat dirs were intended to be gone? None, but those dirs should not be gone. If I didn't have them, I wouldn't have been able to to the command above, and that's a useful thing to be able to do (as is the ability to install a "man page" when all you have is an ascii hand-formatted text file). And as long as the dirs remain, catman(8) remains potentially useful. | The cat pages are passed through cat(1) and thus cannot be (easily) | reformatted dynamically. You keep repeating that as if this is news. You're not understanding that I don't care. I don't want them reformatted dynamically, or at all. | I don't want to drag regular users to mailing lists. That's understandable, but you could at least delete the e-mail addresses and names, and forward the actual complaint (along with a translation if that is likely to be needed). | I was asked by mrg@ to revert the MKCATPAGES removal and add a new | proposal that is more precise. Yes, I saw that, and that you agreed, that is a step forward (though I personally have no problem with deleting the MKCATPAGES build option, and the relevant set list entries). But only that much. kre