On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:23:46PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Interesting!
>
> I just added this as textproc/mdocml.
>
> However, it wasn't very happy on the first man page I tried it on:
I tried it first on grep(1) (a manpage from a GNU program) and it
broke on the .if macro. Is that a GNU extension?
> "mdocterm ls.1" gave me:
> ...
> The Long Format
> If the -l option is given, the following information is displayed for
> each file:
> mdocterm: list type not supported
>
> The call in that line is
> .Bl -item -offset indent -compact
ls(1) was the second I tried it on and saw the same problem. However,
this is a bug in the manpage; it should have a dash before 'indent':
.Bl -item -offset -indent -compact
The tool could use better error reporting, though ;)
Cheers,
Peter
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