Bug#58753: marked as done (man-db: man should run tbl but doesn't)
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From: Craig Small <csm...@scooter.eye-net.com.au>
Subject: man-db: man should run tbl but doesn't
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.3.10-71
Severity: normal
If you have a man page that uses table tags (.TS and .TE) man should run
tbl on it, but for some reason it doesn't.
The skill (1) man page uses tables, if you run man skill you get some
crud in the page.
Delete the cached entry and then run man -p t skill and you get the
right page.
At least two other people have said man should run tbl on this file.
grog gets it right too.
- Craig
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux scooter 2.2.13 #2 SMP Fri Dec 24 12:21:07 EST 1999 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages man-db depends on:
ii groff 1.15-3 GNU troff text-formatting system.
ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
jgroff Not installed or no info
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Subject: Re: Bug#58753: man-db: man should run tbl but doesn't
In-Reply-To: <20000223090426.H2402@none> from Fabrizio Polacco at "Feb 23, 2000
09:04:27 am"
To: Fabrizio Polacco <fpol...@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:11:51 +1100 (EST)
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From: csm...@scooter.eye-net.com.au (Craig Small)
Fabrizio Polacco said:
> ... and how it should know?
> let me explain:
> if a manpage contains calls to a formatter external from groff, then the
> manpage itself (aka its author) knows for first that the manpage need to
> be preprocessed through tbl or else.
[...]
> This is because skill(1) do not has
>
> '\" t
>
> as the very first line.
You are absolutely right! Thankyou very much for your detailed
response.
I put that wierd line in a temporary file and it works fine.
Thanks again.
> PS.: please close this bug when you've updated the manpage in procps :-)
I've closed this bug, but left 53736 open.
- Craig
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