Re: bin/49481: groff -mandoc terminates output if reference contains the word No

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49481; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/49481: groff -mandoc terminates output if reference contains
 the word No
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:22:17 +0100

 This discussion was continued in PR 49485.
 
 A short summary:
 "No" must be quoted on a macro line, otherwise it is parsed.
 That is not a bug.
 
 That the "No" macro without an argument terminates output is a bug.
 However, I don't think it'll be fixed in NetBSD; it should be tested
 on a recent version of groff and reported upstream, if it still occurs.
 
 (If someone is motived to fix it in the in-tree groff (1.19.2, current
 groff is 1.22.x), they are welcome to do so, but I don't see the point
 since we're using mandoc for all man pages, and it's arguably invalid
 input anyway.)
  Thomas