Starting from 'emacs -Q':

1. M-x woman
2. Select groff, then groff.1

What I expected: a buffer containing a nicely formatted man page for
groff.

What I got: a fundamental-mode buffer containing a garbled version of
the nroff src of the man page.

Commentary:

1.  the page src has a definition (.de ...) of a font \f[CR]
which does get parsed correctly.  Then WoMan complains that CR is an
unknown font and eventually seems to give up on formatting.

2.  I get this behaviour with some other man pages but chose this one as
a typical example.

Thanks!
---Fran Burstall



In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
 of 2016-01-09 built on darboux
Repository revision: 384cf23c6ed05e1f151032958a2cc2bb8100344b
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000
System Description: LMDE 2 Betsy

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LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

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next-line: End of buffer
Building list of manual directory expansions...
Building completion list of all manual topics...
Making completion list...
uncompressing groff.1.gz...done
WoMan formatting buffer...
woman-change-fonts: End of buffer
mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [37 times]
mwheel-scroll: End of buffer [4 times]
mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [14 times]

Load-path shadows:
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