Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

RMS> Can we make woman detect use of the doc macros
RMS> and give a meaningful error message?

Grog(1) (part of groff) uses this logic to guess -man macros:

    if:
      any line matches /^\.SH[\s\n]/
      and if any (other) line matches /^\.TH[\s\n]/
      and if no line matches /^\.([pnil]p|sh)[\s\n]/

    then:
      it uses an

It should be enough for woman to check for those (perl-style)
regexps.  At least for now.

For doc, if it is not an, e, om, s or m, and if any
line matches /^\.Dd/, then it is either doc or doc-old.

For after the 22 release, it would seem a good idea to convert the
full grog logic to elisp; I'm sure it would be useful to more than
just woman.


-JimC
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