Hi Alex, At 2023-04-30T16:40:11+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > This one seems serious, and not just a minor inconvenience. You can > reproduce it in the current ascii.7 page from the Linux Manual Pages. > The table separator is gone (except for some aberration at the end, > which even invades the following subsection).
I know about this one, and regard it as cosmetic. Bjarni reported it back on 25 March. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63960 It is assuredly ugly--and please have no doubt that I find it highly irritating--but it destroys no information. On the bright side, there's no longer a spurious blank line in the midst of the table. > I don't know if the CW font selection right above the table is > somehow guilty). Nope, nothing to do with it. The ugliness arises from two factors: 1. The "continuous rendering" mode used by groff man(7) and mdoc(7) uses a technique that is more complicated than simply setting the page length to a huge value, but then shortening it when the page text ends, leaving only enough room for format the page footer. (Long-term, I think making that change will resolve #63960, but not all of the bad behavior.) 2. GNU tbl deliberately draws horizontal and vertical rules too long on nroff devices. This was a deliberate design choice, and it's there for a good reason, but in my opinion it is too ugly to live and should replaced with another method, for which I have ideas. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62471 If you can't stand for it to be in your man page, ditch the vertical rule from the table format. -l l l l | l l l l. +l l l l l l l l. People will still understand the table. And you can put it back when I get the above 2 bugs fixed. Regards, Branden
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