From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fredrik Tolf Subject: Re: Manpage rendering faults Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:06:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 18 22:06:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBFnW-00024V-Jk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:06:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759343AbXGRUGz (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757096AbXGRUGz (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:06:55 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50553 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754613AbXGRUGy (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:06:54 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IBFnG-0000mD-F1 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:06:42 +0200 Received: from 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.133.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:06:42 +0200 Received: from fredrik by 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:06:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e2l5oifrue7fLTRccZzW/9t8va4= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Julian Phillips writes: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > >> I often read manpages using a `man -t whatever | ggv -' command, since >> I like how it is rendered in PostScript. However, it turns out that >> some things in the Git manpages don't really render very well using >> that method. For example, in the git-rebase manpage, there are two >> history graphs that look like this when reading the manpages normally >> in a terminal: > > It's a proportional font issue ... > > Running "groff -Tps -f C -man $(man -w git-rebase) | ggv -" should > display it correctly. (The "-f C" being the part the man doesn't do) > > No idea how to make it use that font by default though ... not even > sure if you can put that kind of information into a man page? Well, if it were a "pure" manpage, I'd try to use pic(1) to do it for the PS version, but I don't suspect asciidoc has a similar feature. I don't actually know, though -- again, I know virtually nothing about asciidoc. Fredrik Tolf