On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:35:24 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Amadeusz Sławiński <am...@asmblr.net>: > > You can find plain text versions here (they should be mostly similar, > > but there are some differences): > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/plain/src/doc/screen.1?h=screen-v4 > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/plain/src/doc/screen.1 > > Got the second one. > > The problem is on line 8: > > .schar \[u2026] ... > There is a lot of \[u2026] in page, as I understand it was supposed to define substitution for it. Will take a look at the rest of things and file after I'm back from work. > It looks like that wants to map the Unicode ellipsis rune to three ASCII > dots. This is a groff extension that won't work in most 3rd-party viewers, > though the failure won't be obvious on a Unicode terminal. > > I just checked with cat -v and I don't think that rune is actually > used anywhere in the page. Try deleting the .schar line and > eyeballing the man output to see if it renders any differently. > If it doesn't, we can just remove the line. > > Also be aware that the line > > .ta .5i 1.8i > > is trouble for third-party viewers. I don't think it's doing anything > useful - there are tabs in the document but nothing seems to depend > on that exact spacing. > > The .UC 4 call in the preamble is historical debris that doesn't do anything. > > You have a bunch of .nf/.fi pairs that will be better as .EX/.EE - that will > set the examples in constant-width font. > > The last .nf in the credits section is really bogus - that section wants > to be a list itemized by copyright date. > > I'm enclosing a cleaned-up version with these changes done. > > I had forgotten I was a screen contributor until I saw my name in the list. > Still don't remember what I did... It seems those were also a cleanups for man page ;) https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=536c977cc7f8cc2148d89df36c8cef94ed6962f6 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=d5ab32e1d6b0081c1bb598a5077459433311de18
