Re: mwm(1) is a mess UGHGH!

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 19:06, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 18:33, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> > > Am 14.06.2023 um 15:10 schrieb Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>:
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> > > 'man mwm' gives the same mess.
> > >
> > > Down around   'Default Window Menu'
> > >
> > > Perlman2 uses 'man';  catch the result and stick in a GUI.
> > >
> > >
> > > 'man mwm'  shows that the problem is in the man.1 file.
> > > I dont know how to fix it.
> >
> > Try this:
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> > tbl /usr/pkg/man/man1/mwm.1 | groff -Tascii -mandoc | less
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> This works.

Pressed the Return button a bit too quickly...

the output looks fine, however, one sees
tbl:man1/mwm.1:135: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:135: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:531: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:531: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:929: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:929: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1275: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1275: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1691: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1691: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1921: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:1921: giving up on this table
tbl:man1/mwm.1:2179: `.' not last character on line
tbl:man1/mwm.1:2179: giving up on this table

in the error stream, the tables are not properly shown.

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> > Does this help? (I didn’t test this.)
> >
> > —
> > Benny
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