From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7843: 24.0.50; woman leaves \& in man page header Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:35:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83pqja5fsi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbcs911x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315553829 10365 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2011 07:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, 7843@debbugs.gnu.org, eric.hanchrow@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 09 09:37:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1ve4-0003hk-6y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:37:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1ve3-00068O-Kt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1ve0-00065a-Jp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vdz-0005h9-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vdz-0005h5-9r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vht-0000UW-Si; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:41:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7843 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7843-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7843.13155540461867 (code B ref 7843); Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7843) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Sep 2011 07:40:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vhd-0000U3-24 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1vhZ-0000Tu-QS for 7843@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LR800B00VNTSL00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 7843@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:35:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.9.62]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LR800B9DVRBBU50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:35:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:41:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:50744 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:07:57 -0400 > Cc: 7843@debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Hanchrow > > It seems to cause problems. man.1 (attached) renders worse in the > current trunk than in Emacs 23.3. The woman-log buffer has many entries > that do not appear in 23.3: > > ** Escape ignored: \- -> - > [many times] > ** Escape ignored: \f -> f > [many times] > ** .. request ignored! > [several times] > ** Numeric/register argument error: w'man 'u My version of Groff (1.19) also emits quite a bit of diagnostics for that man page. > An example of a section that renders worse is > > The following conventions apply to the SYNOPSIS section and > can be used as a guide in other sections. > > fBbold textfR@T{ > type exactly as shown. > T} So does Groff (invoked by my clone of `man'): Reformatting page. Wait...tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:182: unrecognised format `1' tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:182: giving up on this table tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:243: unrecognised format `\' tbl:/usr/man/man1/man.1:243: giving up on this table