Re: Small rendering difference between nroff and mandoc

[Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 06:46:37PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Nicolas Joly wrote on Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:00:36PM +0200:
> 
> > I recently started checking for differences between nroff and mandoc
> > output for the NetBSD manpages.
> 
> Nice to hear that, thanks!

Yep. I find that way a few strange/bad/... constructs that render
differently with both formatters.

> > And noticed a small spacing difference
> > between the tools. When a sentence ends with a macro followed by a
> > punctuation mark mandoc does only output a single space character but
> > nroff adds two.
> 
> Neither the groff nor the mandoc side is as simple as that.

Otherwise it would have already been fixed ;)

[...]
> In OpenBSD base, i see one single instance of this issue,
> in open(2).

Actually i do see about 150 man pages in the NetBSD base system
(e.g. in /usr/share/man) that exhibit a similar behaviour ...

> In any case, this is rather rare and of relatively little impact,
> compared to other remaining EOS issues.  Still, it ought to be
> fixed eventually.  For now, i'm adding this to
> 
>   http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?cvsroot=mdocml
> 
>  - Trailing isolated dots lack EOS for some macros.
>    This cannot use mandoc_eos() because groff only does EOS 
>    for isolated dots at least in some of these cases.
>    Affected macros included those using in_line_eoln().
>    Make sure to fix open(2) 
>    without breaking fstat(1), ksh(1), tzset(3) and UKC(8).
>    reported by Nicolas Joly  Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:00:36 +0200

Thanks.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biology IT Center
Institut Pasteur, Paris.
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