From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig-2945IVfuVpf1P9xLtpHBDw@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120518174722.GA22613@rhi.hi.is> (raw)
Package: manpages
Version: 3.40
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
From "man ..." ("nroff ..."):
grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):1763: character above first line discarded
grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):2688: character above first line discarded
grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):3286: character above first line discarded
"man" ("nroff") needs a long page to avoid (imaginary) page
breaks for the long tables.
The culprit is "Dl 0 -xxxx" (vertical line) where "xxxx" is
one line (40 nroff units) too long. Or there is a bug in
"grotty". "nroff" or "tbl" makes an empty line where a page
break is.
Patch:
--- suffixes.7 2012-04-26 22:58:40.000000000 +0000
+++ suffixes.7.new 2012-05-18 01:22:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
.\" FIXME, mtk, May 2007: rendering this page yields the error:
.\" grotty:suffixes.7:1725: character above first line discarded
.\"
+.\" "nroff" ("man") (or "tbl") needs a long page to avoid warnings
+.\" from "grotty" (at imagined page breaks). Bug in grotty?
+.if n .pl 1000v
.TH SUFFIXES 7 2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
suffixes \- list of file suffixes
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
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2012-05-18 17:47 Bjarni Ingi Gislason [this message]
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2012-06-07 11:48 ` [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty" Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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