Re: misc/58807: Formatting issues for NetBSD online libX11 man pages

["Valery Ushakov via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/58807; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/58807: Formatting issues for NetBSD online libX11 man pages
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 00:59:44 +0300

 On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:30:03 +0000, Kimmo Suominen via gnats wrote:
 
 >     '\" t
 >
 > This means the page should be passed through tbl(1).  Which tool is
 > responsible for recognizing that: man(1) or groff(1)?
 
 It's man(1)'s convention supported by some versions of man (I forgot
 which).  I think bsd man doesn't do that.
 
 
 > Also looks like mandoc fails to format /usr/share/man/man1/groff.1
 > correctly.
 
 mandoc groks some basic troff, but not a lot of it, so it fails to
 format most of the groff man pages (groff_char, etc).
 
 
 -uwe