Re: Man page formatting on OpenBSD
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:45:45PM +0900, TAKAHASHI Tamotsu wrote:
> * Mon Aug 1 2005 Will Yardley <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > On OpenBSD, the "Simple Patterns" section of the man page seems to be
> > screwy - it shows up like this for me:
> That's because OpenBSD's "man" doesn't preprocess manuals with tbl
> by default. There are several workarounds:
>
> 0) add "-t" option to nroff in /etc/man.conf
nroff / groff doesn't seem to have a -t option on Open.
looking in man.conf, it seems to use tbl first, and then pipe to man
(for pages with .tbl)
> 1) mv man5/muttrc.5 man5/muttrc.tbl
woo... this works.
> 2) patch doc/muttrc.man.head
I can test this one out if there's interest, but maybe it would be
easier to just install to muttrc.tbl by default on OpenBSD?
w