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bug #42434: Typo in source file groff_char.man

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 26 May 2014 11:08:09 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Lint Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  wl
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.3
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Sat 22 Jan 2022 01:32:38 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Setting to "lint" item group because I know of nothing in the FLOSS world that still interprets these.  We don't, and man-db man(1) scans the full text of a man page to determine which preprocessors to run, and has for over 20 years.

Maybe file(1) does?


man\_db-2.3.18 (14 May 2001)
============================

man\_db-2.3.18 is an interim release under new maintenance by Colin Watson,
merging much of the work done by former maintainers (Graeme Wilford and
Fabrizio Polacco).  It incorporates several years of changes made in the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution's package of man\_db.

[...]

 * `lexgrog` now scans manual pages to guess which preprocessors are needed.
   [Fabrizio]



commit 658472a64f2f00bee8cceb604d7a8a597d924d97
Author:     Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Tue May 27 00:58:25 2014 +0200
Commit:     Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>
CommitDate: Tue May 27 00:58:25 2014 +0200

    Fix mark for calling `tbl'.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Group administrator
Mon 26 May 2014 11:11:35 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed a few minutes ago.

Werner LEMBERG <wl>
Group administrator
Mon 26 May 2014 11:08:09 PM UTC, original submission:  

According to groff_man(7), the first line of .../man/groff_char.man should be:

    '/" t

to tell groff to run the man page through tbl first.  Unfortunately, this isn't the case here.  The first line of groff_char.man is:

    ./" t

which causes groff to skip the tbl step.

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file #31445:  groff_char.man added by None (34KiB - application/x-troff-man)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-01-22 gbranden CategoryNone Core
        Item GroupNone Lint
    2014-05-26 wl StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone wl
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.3
    2014-05-26 None Attached File- Added groff_char.man, #31445

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