Re: makewhatis stuck on groffer.1

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Jan,

Jan Stary wrote on Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:32:26AM +0200:

> thank you, it works now.

Thanks for testing.

> Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>> There appear to be a few more issues with that manual page that i'm
>> currently looking at.

There are at least two other issues, but both are so hard to fix
and so rare in practice that i decided to mention them in the TODO
file rather than fixing them right now, see the commit below.

> Yeah, it _is_ insane. AFAICS, it is the only manpage that defines
> 
> 	.de author
> 	This file was written by
> 	.MTO "" "Bernd Warken" .
> 
> for example, which gets rendered as
> 
> 	AUTHOR
> 	       This file was written by

One other case of .MTO is already mentioned in TODO:

  - groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL
    These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page.
    The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too.
    We should probably *not* add them to mandoc.
    Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse.
    Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200
    loc **  exist *  algo *  size **  imp *

But both the GNU grep(1) and groff_www(7) manual pages got fixed IIRC,
and i'm not aware of any other groff_www(7) abuse, so i don't intend
to implement .MTO and .URL.

Yours,
  Ingo
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