Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/06/2015 15:50, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/04/2015 08:34 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1]) I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have man-p

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/06/2015 02:18, Wayne Pollock wrote: The description section of the strftime man page is garbled. The first paragraph shows as this: = into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than MAXSIZE characters. You control t

RE: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-04 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Jon TURNEY > > I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have > man-pages-posix It seems the posix pages themselves disagree: ==8<= STRFTIME(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual STRFTIME(3P) PROLOG This manual page is part

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/4/2015 4:34 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 04/06/2015 14:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Marco Atzeri It might well be that starting a line with ' is not valid troff markup. You are right http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Basics.html#Basics "Not all input lines are text

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/04/2015 08:34 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated > from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1]) > > I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have > man-pages-posix GNU/Linux systems ha

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/06/2015 14:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Marco Atzeri It looks a man-db issue, it misinterprets the ' at the begin of the phrase. Adding a single space before works fine. Perhaps preferred would be to highlight the name with .B: $ diff -u before after --- before 2015-06-04 08:

RE: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-04 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Marco Atzeri > > It looks a man-db issue, it misinterprets the ' at the begin > of the phrase. > > Adding a single space before works fine. Perhaps preferred would be to highlight the name with .B: $ diff -u before after --- before 2015-06-04 08:37:08.693623000 -0400 +++ after

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/4/2015 7:46 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Marco Atzeri writes: Works fine for me, I have a complete man page see attached. I think that's exactly what Wayne was talking about: DESCRIPTION into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than MAXSIZE characte

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > Works fine for me, I have a complete man page > see attached. I think that's exactly what Wayne was talking about: > DESCRIPTION >into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than >MAXSIZE characters. The beginning of the sentence seem

Re: strftime man page is garbled

2015-06-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/4/2015 3:18 AM, Wayne Pollock wrote: The description section of the strftime man page is garbled. The first paragraph shows as this: = into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than MAXSIZE characters. You control