Re: mandoc shortcomings

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:16:06 -0500
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 11:19:35PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to NetBSD 7.0 and my early experience with the
> > new mandoc-based man utility is less than wonderful.  I'm concerned
> > there's a quality-control issue, because the problem could have
> > been detected in advance of the release: "mandoc -Wall" reports many
> > errors for the file.  
> 
> I just want to be sure I get this right: "the" file?
> 
> As in, there's a file mandoc doesn't process correctly?

Yes, namely /usr/share/man/man7/groff.7.  I didn't test every man
page.  It's part of the basic doc set.  NetBSD should be able to
display all the man pages that it ships with, don't you agree?  

Maybe there's a setting I missed that will enable mandoc to process
that page or otherwise get man(1) to display it  correctly.  I doubt
it, but I'm happy to learn.  From where I sit, the "BSD good, GPL bad"
mantra seems to have driven us to adopt a system that lacks required
functionality that's been in the OS for decades.  That doesn't look
like a step forward.  

--jkl