Re: mandoc inserts extraneous <br> tags inside <pre>

[Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com>]

Hi Ingo,

Thanks for your response. I did skim the TODO but I think I wasn’t sure if that was the same bug. I’ll keep an eye out for a new release.

Mohamed

> On Jun 26, 2022, at 3:16 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello Mohamed,
> 
> Mohamed Akram wrote on Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 04:28:18PM +0000:
> 
>> Thanks for this great and useful tool.
> 
> You are welcome.
> 
>> I did notice a bug however in mandoc when using HTML output.
>> It seems to insert <br> tags inside <pre> sections, which causes
>> there to be double newlines since <pre> already preserves newlines.
>> You can see it in this example which has many code samples in it:
>> 
>> curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apple-oss-distributions/tcl/tcl-134.121.2/tcl_ext/expect/expect/expect.man | mandoc -T html >example.html
> 
> I believe that is the following bug already listed in the mandoc TODO file:
> 
> - HTML formatting of .nf should avoid <br/>
>  and not close and re-open <pre> on .P
>  my mail to ports@ 27 Jun 2021 16:09:20 +0200
>  loc **  exist **  algo *  size *  imp **
> 
> I'm expanding the entry a bit to read:
> 
> - HTML formatting of .nf should avoid <br/>,
>  even when input lines start with whitespace,
>  and not close and re-open <pre> on .P
>  my mail to ports@ 27 Jun 2021 16:09:20 +0200
>  reported again by Mohamed Akram 25 Jun 2022 16:28:18 +0000
>  loc **  exist **  algo *  size *  imp **
> 
> This is one among the bugs likely to get addressed during the next round
> of less-important bug fixes.  It is less important in so far as a few
> bugs that can crash mandoc are still open.  There is no specific time
> frame, but a delay of a few more months is likely.
> 
> Thanks for reporting!
> 
> Yours,
>  Ingo