From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: mandoc and nroff differs for Em macro construct in columnated list
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011222000.GK25396@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
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Another issue found by Nicolas Joly. I can reproduce it with mdocml-1.12.0.
Cheers,
Thomas
----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr> -----
Hi Thomas,
I just found another nroff vs. mandoc difference while looking into
bwi(4) man page.
In a columnated list, use of Em macro differs with a quoted string of
words separated by tab characters. While nroff do emphasis all words,
mandoc do only make the first one.
The attached sample output differs for the second item line. While we
can rewrite this by using constructs like the 3rd item line, i wonder
if this behaviour is to be expected ?
Thanks.
NB: At least the following man pages suffer from this:
man1/mt.1
man1/nl.1
man3/rpc.3
man4/ath.4
man4/bwi.4
man4/crypto.4
man4/dge.4
man4/rtw.4
man4/swcrypto.4
man4/termios.4
man8/ccdconfig.8
--
Nicolas Joly
Projects and Developments in Bioinformatics
Institut Pasteur, Paris.
----- End forwarded message -----
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.Dd October 10, 2011
.Dt SAMPLE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sample
.Nd sample description
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sample
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
is a sample test for Em macro.
.Pp
.Em "Words separated by spaces"
.Pp
.Em "Words separated by tabs"
.Bl -column "column1" "column2" "column3"
.It Em "word1 word2 word3"
.It Em "word1 word2 word3"
.It Em word1 Ta Em word2 Ta Em word3
.El
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