Re: [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-07 11:48:45
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 [off-list ref] wrote:
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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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