Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:39:07 +0800, Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  I am using `WoMan' other than man to read manpages. But I find there
>  are some slight differences when reading the content.  Take the
>  manpage of `man' as an example:
> 
>  WoMan parses the result of the section number introduction like this:
> 
>     1@Executable programs or shell commands   2@System calls
> (functions provided by the kernel)   3@Library calls (functions within
> program libraries)   4@Special files (usually found in /dev)   5@File
> formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd   6@Games   7@Miscellaneous
> (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7),
>      groff(7)   8@System administration commands (usually only for
> root)   9@Kernel routines [Non standard] 
> 
>  While the result generates by `man' does have `@' but spaces `   ',
>  just as follows:
>      1   Executable programs or shell commands
>       2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
>       3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
>       4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
>       5   File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
>       6   Games
>       7   Miscellaneous (including macro packages  and  conventions),  e.g.  man(7),
>           groff(7)
>       8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
>       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]
> 
>  The margin in WoMan also seems a little odd.
> 
>  So is this a known issue?

Yes. Women are from venus.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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