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Summary: mdoc nroff output for Nm broken since 1.23
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: None
Submitted: Sun 31 Dec 2023 10:26:12 PM UTC
Category: Macro mdoc
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sun 31 Dec 2023 10:26:12 PM UTC By: Anonymous
Downstream bug: https://bugs.debian.org/1059536, part 1.
The first invocation of Nm in NAME is broken: it correctly saves the first
argument to the string register, but it draws the argument in R instead of B.
This is in contrast to every other use of Nm (and, thus, every other reference
to the object the Nms refer to).
This is baffling and confusing; please revert this (a quick peep at
https://sources.debian.org/src/groff/1.23.0-3/tmac/doc.tmac/#L1166 shows that
this is a seemignly-intended change).
This is much harder to correct (I'd say impossible) for a casual user, though
I've added this to my mdoc.local (it's not pretty nor is it nice but it does
work against 1.23.0-3):
.\" Handle '.Nm ...' in "Name" section: use the Nm font! It doesn't anymore in
1.23.
.als Nm_old Nm
.rm Nm
.de Nm
.if \\n[doc-in-name-section] \{\
. if "\\*[doc-topic-name]"" \
. ds doc-topic-name "\\$1\"
. nr doc-in-name-section 0
.\}
.Nm_old \\$@
..
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