There is a detailed message here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21239#issuecomment-1645998105 relating to a similar issue with pod2man.
>From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for groff, if I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start. The story about supporting AT&T troff is less clear, but my reading is that CR may not work there. I'm currently on leave, away from my computer, but expect to address this in help2man after I come back. My planned fix was to just switch to CR, as that should resolve the issue for pretty much everyone, given the prevalence of groff. I could provide an option with CR as the default, but that wouldn't really help anyone who received the pre-built date.1 . On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, 15:07 Paul Eggert, <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 2024-12-11 18:28, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > troff:<stdin>:236: warning: font name 'CW' is deprecated > > That "CW" was generated by help2man so I'll CC this message to > <bug-help2...@gnu.org> as per > <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#Reports>. > > Can you suggest what help2man should use instead of \f(CW? Help2man > needs be be portable to older groff and likely to traditional troff. > > To the help2man maintainers: apparently groff now complains about \f(CW; > see <https://bugs.gnu.org/74808>. >
