Re: mwm(1) is a mess UGHGH!

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

WOW! COOL!

Is their a way to add this to perlman2?

if ( What_if)
   {
      tbl /usr/pkg/man/man1/mwm.1 | groff -Tascii -mandoc | less
   }

I have never seen this as a way to show a man-page

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 7:33 PM Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> wrote:
>
>     Date:        Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:30:23 +0100
>     From:        Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <CAG0OUxitgEcUzyr9BJ0EFKBD8eSu+P0CUF74CpvFuHrydJA5FQ%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
>
>
>   | Pressed the Return button a bit too quickly...
>   |
>   | the output looks fine, however, one sees
>   | tbl:man1/mwm.1:135: `.' not last character on line
>
> That often indicates that the input has already been processed by
> tbl.   The TS and TE macro calls remain in the file, for the benefit
> of the macro package, but data that has been processed by tbl cannot
> be processed by it again.   Try dropping that, and just running:
>
>         groff -Tascii -mandoc /usr/pkg/man/man1/mwm.1
>
> (pipe the output to more, or less, if you want).
>
> kre
>
> ps: I don't have the man page to test, nor mwm in any form, I use blackbox.
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>