Re: tbl example - what should be fixed?

[Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> > We have a lot of manpages having the similar looking tables:
> > .TS
> > tab(\a) box;
> > cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i)
> > lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i)
> > .
> > TYPE\aVALUE
> > _
> > Type1\aValue1
> > _
> > Type2\aValue2
> > .TE
> >
> > Output of -Tlint:
> > tbl.example:2:5: ERROR: skipping bad character: ignoring byte
> > tbl.example:2:6: ERROR: bad table syntax
> > tbl.example:3:12: ERROR: bad table layout
> > tbl.example:4:12: ERROR: bad table layout
> > tbl.example:6:15: ERROR: skipping bad character: ignoring byte
> > tbl.example:6:4: ERROR: bad table layout
> > tbl.example:8:4: ERROR: skipping bad character: ignoring byte
> > tbl.example:8:2: ERROR: bad table layout
> > tbl.example:10:20: ERROR: skipping bad character: ignoring byte
> > tbl.example:10:1: ERROR: bad table layout
> > tbl.example:1:1: ERROR: no table data cells specified
> >
> >
> > My questions is, is there anything that could/should be fixed/improved
> > in tbl parser, or all of the errors are 100% correct and should be fixed
> > in the manpages?
> 
> Yuri,
> 
>  From mdoc.7:
> 
> LANGUAGE SYNTAX
>       mdoc documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII
>       characters, the space character, and, in certain circumstances,
>       the tab character.
> 
> The tbl.7 manuals says the same.  But you have non-ASCII characters in 
> the input.  groff is probably letting you get away with this by simply 
> reading through the binary to the ')', but mandoc throws away the binary 
> characters before parsing.
> 
> Second, you did raise a bug!  I was looking for modifiers for the 
> vertical bar, i.e., a|b -> error.  I just committed a fix for this.
> 
> The stand-alone period is another problem.  groff *should* ignore it by 
> its own definition of a no-op macro.  But as it occurs in a tbl context, 
> it's different?  Blje...  For now, just put the period on the same line 
> as the last macro.

Thanks, Kristaps. I was just making sure what I should fix locally (a
simple sed script took care of it..)


Yuri
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