`man groff_char' misbehaving

[j. van den hoff]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:08:58 +0100, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:07 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ah yes, never occured to me tht there might be a man port as well. thank
>> you for this solution. regarding "satisfactory": for my personal use,  
>> yes
>> it is. generally, I'd say no, since it seems osx's man does something
>> wrong/non-canonical, no?
>>
>
> Probably means Apple ships older groff and newer programs' manpages  
> expect
> a newer groff. I've seen a fair number of groff warnings to that extent.

well, groff_char is a manpage from the groff project itself and I would be  
surprised if it has changed much (and in a backward incompatible way!) in  
recent years (but did not check/verify this). actually it seems the  
problem is with the `tbl' precprocessor (that's the one throwing the  
errors). maybe I will try to ask at the groff mailing list what's going on  
here.

>


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