[patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"

[patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

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

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Re: [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Okay -- already dealt with in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673436

Thanks,

Michael

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
<bjarniig-2945IVfuVpf1P9xLtpHBDw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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