>Number:         8724
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       markup errors on man-pages
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov  1 06:12:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Danny Thomas
>Organization:
CMCB, The Uni of Queensland
>Release:        around 1.4K
>Environment:
NetBSD server.vthrc.uq.edu.au 1.4K NetBSD 1.4K (SERVER.v6) #0: Sun Oct 24 02:24:
47 EST 1999     root@server.vthrc.uq.edu.au:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SERVE

>Description:
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1:453: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l')
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1:734: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l')
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1:834: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l')
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1:981: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l')
/usr/share/man/man1/strip.1:29: warning: can't find font `\'
/usr/share/man/man4/amiga/autoconf.4:68: warning: `Qlfd0' not defined (probable missing space after `Ql')

>How-To-Repeat:
vi /usr/share/man/man*/*
    or
look at output from a script groffing the man tree

>Fix:
the four in mail(1) come about as
.ne li
which seems to be interprested as a not-equal test. I've chosen to remove these lines which fortuitously (I think not) occur at the position of page-breaks, as in the printed BSD44 URM. I suspect they're something like new-line to overcome some formatting glitch then extant.

I haven't looked at strip which is prepared from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/binutils.info

--- /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/mail.1.orig   Mon Nov  1 23:50:16 1999
+++ /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/mail.1        Mon Nov  1 23:50:54 1999
@@ -450,7 +450,6 @@
 .It Ic help
 A synonym for
 .Ic \&?
-.ne li
 .It Ic hold
 .Pf ( Ic ho ,
 also
@@ -731,7 +730,6 @@
 or
 .Ic retain
 command) are not included.
-.ne li
 .It Ic \&~F Ns Ar messages
 Identical to
 .Ic \&~f ,
@@ -831,7 +829,6 @@
 to prompt you for the subject of each message you send.
 If
 you respond with simply a newline, no subject field will be sent.
-.ne li
 .It Ar askcc
 Causes you to be prompted for additional carbon copy recipients at the
 end of each message.
@@ -978,7 +975,6 @@
 command and
 .Ic \&~v
 escape.
-.ne li
 .It Va crt
 The valued option
 .Va crt
--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/man4.amiga/autoconf.4.orig  Sun Oct 31 07:24:37 1999
+++ /usr/src/share/man/man4/man4.amiga/autoconf.4       Sun Oct 31 07:24:53 1999
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 was configured
 .Pp  not configured.
 If this line follows the
-.Qlfd0 at fdc0
+.Ql fd0 at fdc0
 configuration line, this diagnostic
 indicates that a second floppy drive was detected, but was not configured
 into the kernel.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: