Hi Colin, On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 23:55, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:46:30PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > Lintian has recently started emitting this groff warning for ftlint.1 > > in freetype-demos as part of its man pages check: > > > > groff-message an.tmac:<standard input>:66: warning: tbl preprocessor > > failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE > > macro called with TW register undefined) > > I haven't looked at your code in detail, but this sounds similar to > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1042358. groff is most > likely observing that > you're using the tbl macros but haven't invoked groff with -t, which > means any warnings it issues are going to be inaccurate representations > of how pages are actually rendered in practice. Your starting point > should be to add -t to the groff command line in this check, and then > see what else shows up after that.
It is similar, yes, but unfortunately, I'm working with a hand-crafted man page file.
