On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > zcat /usr/share/man/man8/*.gz | > > > groff -Tps -t -man-old -rC1 >acro.ps > > > > This does finish and they are numbered but now the formatting > > is broken. Text all dumped to page without any section > > headers, missing content, unusable. > > Do all the manpages use the classical "man" markup, or do they > use the "doc" macros? If the latter, then "an-old.tmac" is > not the correct package to load, and "doc.tmac" must be used. > Deciding which one to load is exactly what "andoc.tmac" (via > "an.tmac") was supposed to do (but the implemented solution > was perhaps not quite optimal).
It is a mix. Using -mdoc I get warnings like: Not a \-mdoc command: .LP (#2959) Not a \-mdoc command: .SH (#2972) mdoc warning: Empty input line #2973 I fyou want I can send you a small tarball with nine manpages in it that show the problem.
