Re: Should we remove those man pages from CVS?

[Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>]

David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> The resulting manpages have a nit in them:

>   OBJCOPY.1(1)                   GNU                   OBJCOPY.1(1)

> the ".1" should not be there.  They also product a fully blank last page
> on BSD.

This should be easily fixable.

> vs 2.11.0's:

>     .SH SYNOPSIS
>     .hy 0
>     .na
>     .TP
>     .B objcopy
>     .RB "[\|" \-F\ \fIbfdname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-target=\fIbfdname\fR "\|]"
>     .RB "[\|" \-I\ \fIbfdname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-input\-target=\fIbfdname\fR "\|]"

> The BSD man system displays this with lot of surrounding blanks around
> the ['s and ]'s.

Patches to pod2man that would let you embed spaces like that would be more
than welcome.  If you know enough about nroff to make the changes that you
think would improve it, I'd be glad to try to pick that up and roll it
into the distribution.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>