`man groff_char' misbehaving

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Nov 18 13:01:32 PST 2015


On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:43 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:

> I see the following output from `man groff_char' with version 1.22.3 of
> `groff' under macos 10.10.5:
> 
> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: unrecognised format `O'
> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: giving up on this table
> 
> (many more similar lines following)
> 
> and the finally appearing manpage indeed does not contain the tables
> listing the glyphs as it should. any ideas?

I can confirm that behavior under 10.11.1 with the groff port installed. 

I guess OS X's man program is not able to read the groff port's manpage.

Installing the man port seems to work around this problem. Is that satisfactory?




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