Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:19:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Yoshiteru Kageyama <yt-kage@cb3.so-net.ne.jp> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/41972: A statement in ftpusers.5 can't be output correctly with the current groff application Message-ID: <200208241419.g7OEJCaM032269@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 41972 >Category: docs >Synopsis: A statement in ftpusers.5 can't be output correctly with the current groff application >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 24 07:20:03 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Yoshiteru Kageyama >Release: 4-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: >Description: In a manual file ftpusers.5, there is a statement which can't be displayed properly with the groff application currently installed in FreeBSD 4-STABLE, groff 1.17.2: (In line 160-166) .Pp The syntax is similar to .Nm "" , except that the .Sy class argument is ignored. When you process these lines with the groff 1.17.2, you will find the .Nm macro line processed wrong. The output is: "The syntax is similar to , except that the class argument is ignored. " It is similar to what? >How-To-Repeat: groff -Tascii -mdoc ftpusers.5 >Fix: --- ftpusers.5 Sat Aug 24 23:14:48 2002 +++ ftpusers.5.new Sat Aug 24 23:16:00 2002 @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ If the file does not exist, the root directory change is not performed. .Pp The syntax is similar to -.Nm "" , +.Nm , except that the .Sy class argument is ignored. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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