Re: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-02-21 08:16, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-02-21 00:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2023-02-20T21:59:33-0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > Another data point from current official release; instead of:
> > >     .TE
> > >     .TS
> > >     allbox tab(:);
> > >     l lx.
> > > splitting the man table using:
> > >     .T&
> > >     l lx.
> > > behaves the same as if the table was not split: fine on utf8,
> > > disappears on other output devices/file formats.
>
> > I'm not quite sure what you're reporting.
> > It sounds like it _might_ be this bug affecting tbl output on nroff
> > devices:
> >     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49390
> > ...which, fortunately, is fixed in groff 1.23.0 (as of today, at release
> > candidate 3).
> > If that isn't it, can you supply me with a malfunctioning specimen, and
> > describe what you expected?
>
> Just another data point for issues with long -man page multi-"page" tables not 
> rendering on non-tty devices/file formats.

Hi Branden,

Still issues with latest man/tbl/groff-rc3 rendering of long tables on HTML 
outputs.
Try any apropos {cp125{1,2},iso{-,_}8859-{1..16},latin{1..10}} charset encoding 
like man -H latin1 or groff equivalent and only last "page" of table renders.
At least man -Tps generates decent table content.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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