Re: Bogus index in man-pages book from other projects

Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-12T15:50:51Z

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Hi Deri,

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 03:19:14PM +0000, Deri wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> It is not locale, it is a Branden thing!

> If you use the deri-gropdf-ng branch of groff, which

Thanks!

> Branden offered to do the release to master for me and has sat on it for 9 months, all
> languages are now supported since UTF-16 is now used. It is difficult to understand his
> reluctance to make groff pdfs accessible to all languages, perhaps as an American he just
> does not want the Russians and Chinese using his lovely groff, it is as likely as the rest of
> the spurious arguments he has hinted, but never specified. "I feel the code is not robust.",
> without giving an example of how it could fail, knowing that if he did I would just make
> the code "more robust"!!
>
> Anyway, this what I get if I build the Russian version.

Hmmm, that one looks great.

BTW, I've seen another glitch:

In the gpasswd(1) page, at the bottom (SEE ALSO, aka, СМОТРИТЕ ТАКЖЕ),
the last two man-page references don't show correctly. Neither of them
have a link, and only the second shows up in bold. The source is:

alx@debian:~/src/shadow/shadow/build/man/ru$ tail man1/gpasswd.1
содержит защищаемую информацию о группах
.RE
.SH "СМОТРИТЕ ТАКЖЕ"
.PP
\fBnewgrp\fR(1),
\fBgroupadd\fR(8),
\fBgroupdel\fR(8),
\fBgroupmod\fR(8),
\fBgrpck\fR(8),
\fBgroup\fR(5), \fBgshadow\fR(5)\&.

So it might be due to having two references in the same line. I suspect
maybe the updated regex has some issues?

This happens in both the English and the Russian pages.

Have a lovely day!
Alex

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