mandoc -Tman bugs

mandoc -Tman bugs

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

I've run mandoc -Tman over the man pages in libzip.
     hg clone http://hg.nih.at/libzip/
     cd libzip/man
     mkdir mandoc
     for i in *.mdoc; do j=${i%%mdoc}man; mandoc -Tman $i > mandoc/$j; done

Then I looked at the output. I found two repeating problems:

1) Lots of pages spew stuff like:
zip_errors.man:92: warning: numeric expression expected (got `X')
The line here is .TP XZIPXERXCOMPNOTSUPPXX

2) In the SYNOPSIS, there are no parentheses around the function
arguments, and no ';' at the end. For example, the mdoc code (in
zip_close.mdoc):

.Ft int
.Fn zip_close "struct zip *archive"

which is usually printed as

     int
     zip_close(struct zip *archive);

is converted to the following man code:

int
zip_close struct zip *archive

Other than that, the output looks very good!
 Thomas
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