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Re: Man page formatting on OpenBSD



On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:29:30AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> 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.

So can / should we install muttrc.5 as "muttrc.tbl" on OpenBSD?

Doing this causes that section of TFM to render correctly, and AFAICT,
doesn't cause any problems.

w