.At missing some arguments?

[Colin Watson]

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On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 at 21:51:31 -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> The ash.1 man page has formating problems in the man page.  Below is the 
> man source and the resulting output.  The 'version' number is missing in the
> first sentence.  Sorry I don't speak groff to provide a patch.
> 
> Source:
> .Sh HISTORY
> A
> .Nm
> command appeared in
> .At v1 .
> It was, however, unmaintainable so we wrote this one.
> 
> Ouptut:
> HISTORY
>      A sh command appeared in It was, however, unmaintainable so we
>      wrote this one.        ^^^^

I'm looking at groff 1.16 here, though I don't think it's changed in
1.16.1. tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.man says that .At accepts '[v1 .. v7 |
32v | V.1 | V.4]'. This disagrees with tmac/doc-syms, however. Firstly,
it can take 'V' as well ("AT&T System V UNIX"); secondly, doc-syms only
deals with v6 and v7 at the moment from the v1 .. v7 range.

I suggest the following patch (against 1.16 - I haven't had a chance to
look at CVS yet, sorry). It's about as subtle as a brick, I know, but it
seems to work. :)

--- groff-1.16.orig/tmac/doc-syms       Thu Feb 22 02:03:48 2001
+++ groff-1.16/tmac/doc-syms    Thu Feb 22 02:04:35 2001
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@
 .ds aa \&\f\\n(cF\s\\n(cZ
 .if \\n(.$==2 \{\
 .      if "\\$1"32v" \&Version 32V \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
+.      if "\\$1"v1"  \&Version 1 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
+.      if "\\$1"v2"  \&Version 2 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
+.      if "\\$1"v3"  \&Version 3 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
+.      if "\\$1"v4"  \&Version 4 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
+.      if "\\$1"v5"  \&Version 5 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
 .      if "\\$1"v6"  \&Version 6 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
 .      if "\\$1"v7"  \&Version 7 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa\\$2
 .      if "\\$1"V"  \&\\*(tNAT&T\\*(aa System V \\*(tNUNIX\\*(aa\\$2
@@ -134,6 +139,11 @@
 .\}
 .if \\n(.$==1 \{\
 .      if "\\$1"32v" \&Version 32V \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
+.      if "\\$1"v1"  \&Version 1 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
+.      if "\\$1"v2"  \&Version 2 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
+.      if "\\$1"v3"  \&Version 3 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
+.      if "\\$1"v4"  \&Version 4 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
+.      if "\\$1"v5"  \&Version 5 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
 .      if "\\$1"v6"  \&Version 6 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
 .      if "\\$1"v7"  \&Version 7 \\*(tNAT&T UNIX\\*(aa
 .      if "\\$1"V"  \&\\*(tNAT&T\\*(aa System V \\*(tNUNIX\\*(aa
--- groff-1.16.orig/tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.man Thu Feb 22 02:03:59 2001
+++ groff-1.16/tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.man      Thu Feb 22 02:04:55 2001
@@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@
 .Sh GENERAL TEXT DOMAIN
 .Ss AT&T Macro
 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-Usage: .At [v1 .. v7 | 32v | V.1 | V.4] ... \*(Pu
+Usage: .At [v1 .. v7 | 32v | V | V.1 | V.4] ... \*(Pu
 .Ed
 .Bl -tag -width ".At v6 ) ," -compact -offset 14n
 .It Li ".At"

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                     address@hidden