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version 1.232, 2017/02/05 22:25:39

version 1.235, 2017/03/03 14:23:23

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- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code;

probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7)

use roff_node such that macro sets can mix;

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this.

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100

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- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,

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- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)

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- Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) needs either a markdown output formatter

for mandoc -mdoc or a markdown to mdoc converter because they

have to maintain manuals needed both in markdown and mdoc format.

Look at the libsoldout (markdown -> whatever)

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--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------

- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?

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and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)

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- rendering of double quotes in -Tascii is ugly in both groff and mandoc

to improve, both would have to be changed

Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:27:56 +0100

- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc

reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc...

reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600

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The same applies to .Bl -column column widths;

reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar

reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200

reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@

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An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts

with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring.