`man groff_char' misbehaving

[j. van den hoff]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:19:58 +0100, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:17 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> tbl is part of / distributed with groff. And last I checked, Apple (and  
> the
> *BSDs in general) was shipping a *really ancient* groff, probably because
> of license concerns.

that's true. it is GNU groff version 1.19.2
Copyright (C) 2004

and (the old) `tbl' is complaining about an unknown directive in the (new)  
groff_char manpage. so that's probably the reason for the trouble.

>


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