Re: Cannot typeset tmac/groff_mdoc.n

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Tons of warnings, and the resulting text is stripped, defaced and
>> unreadable.  I suppose it is a problem in tmac/groff_mdoc.n, not in
>> groff itself.
>
> Workaround:
>
> ln '-s' '.' 'tmac/mdoc'
>
> This reduces the number of errors to just five: [...]

Well, there are no warnings or error messages after installation, so I
consider this problematic.

> Now to the output of -Thtml: [...]

You've hit one of the weakest points of groff...

Unfortunately, the author of grohtml no longer takes care of his
`baby', and I don't have time either to work on it.  For this reason
grohtml is still tagged as `beta code'.

Additionally, the mdoc package has, contrary to ms or man, not been
prepared for proper grohtml support yet.  On the other hand, there are
still some bugs directly in grohtml.

In case you are interested in the latter, it would be of great help if
you can construct minimal documents which exhibit erroneous behaviour,
and submit them as individual bug reports to Savannah so that at least
the problems get collected at a central place.  Submitting patches of
course is highly welcomed too (for example, to check the HTML stuff in
`s.tmac' or `an-old.tmac' and do something similar in `doc.tmac' and
its related files).


    Werner