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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 14:31:11 +0900 (JST)
From:      ryo2@on.rim.or.jp
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   docs/6780: illegal roff macro is used in disklabel.5
Message-ID:  <199805290925.SAA06851@april.on.rim.or.jp>

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>Number:         6780
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       disklabel.5 manual page is wrong
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 29 02:30:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yoshishige Arai
>Organization:
RIMNET
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

Using default groff and tmac files on FreeBSD.

>Description:

In the /usr/share/man/man5/disklabel.5, there is written as;

  The format of the disk label, as specified in
  .Aw Pa sys/disklabel.h ,
  is

But the formatted result of "man 5 disklabel" can't show
this header file name as following.

  The format of the disk label, as specified in is

It seems to be caused by the lack of the roff macro ".Aw" in any
file of tmac directory.
In addition to it, the disklabel.5 don't have description about
its' history although ".Sh HISTORY" line exists.

>How-To-Repeat:

It always happens.

>Fix:
	
How about to rewrite the corresponding line as
".Aq .Pa sys/disklabel.h ," or ".Pa sys/disklabel.h ,"?
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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