Index: mandocdb.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/mandocdb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -p -r1.25 mandocdb.c
--- mandocdb.c	7 Dec 2011 01:57:20 -0000	1.25
+++ mandocdb.c	7 Dec 2011 14:55:39 -0000
@@ -1301,31 +1301,69 @@ pformatted(DB *hash, struct buf *buf, st
 	}
 	fclose(stream);
 
+	/* 
+	 * Strip out backspace-encoding.
+	 * Also handle the bogus case where the backspace is malformed
+	 * at the beginning or end of the line.
+	 */
+
+	while (NULL != (p = memchr(line, '\b', len))) {
+		plen = p - line;
+		if (plen == --len)
+			continue;
+		if (plen > 0) {
+			memmove(p - 1, p + 1, len - plen);
+			len--;
+		} else
+			memmove(p, p + 1, len);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Check if there's no name/description information.  This
+	 * happens with some manuals, e.g., LAPACK.  If not, reuse our
+	 * title.
+	 */
+
+	if (len > 0 && '\n' == line[len - 1]) {
+		line[--len] = '\0';
+		if (0 == strcmp(line, "SYNOPSIS")) {
+			buf_appendb(dbuf, buf->cp, buf->size);
+			hash_put(hash, buf, TYPE_Nd);
+			return;
+		}
+	} else if (0 == len) {
+		buf_appendb(dbuf, buf->cp, buf->size);
+		hash_put(hash, buf, TYPE_Nd);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If there is a dash, skip to the text following it.
 	 */
 
-	for (p = line, plen = len; plen; p++, plen--)
-		if ('-' == *p)
-			break;
+	p = memchr(line, '-', len);
+	plen = len - (p - line);
+
 	for ( ; plen; p++, plen--)
-		if ('-' != *p && ' ' != *p && 8 != *p)
+		if ('-' != *p && ' ' != *p)
 			break;
-	if (0 == plen) {
-		p = line;
-		plen = len;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the rest of the line, but no more than 70 bytes.
 	 */
 
-	if (70 < plen)
+	if (0 == plen) {
+		p = line;
+		plen = len;
+	} else if (70 < plen)
 		plen = 70;
-	p[plen-1] = '\0';
+
 	buf_appendb(dbuf, p, plen);
+	buf_appendb(dbuf, "", 1);
+
 	buf->len = 0;
 	buf_appendb(buf, p, plen);
+	buf_appendb(buf, "", 1);
 	hash_put(hash, buf, TYPE_Nd);
 }