"Daphne Pfister via RT" <bug-podlators@rt.cpan.org> writes:
Show quoted text> After the changes in 2.4.1, generated man pages under HPUX's nroff (
> 10.20 pa-risc and 11i IA64 ) start with an blank page. Reverting the F
> register change and regenerated the manual pages fixed the problem for
> me.
Show quoted text> Attached the output of nroff -man for the pod2man man page with both the
> old F register code and the new F register code.
Show quoted text> Note: The pages were actually generated with a newer version of pod2man,
> I just manually swapped the F register section back in the preamble.
Hi Daphne,
Sorry about the delay in responding to this. Could you please try the
replacing all of the F register stuff with:
.\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
.\"
.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'.
.de IX
..
.if !\nF .nr F 0
.if \nF>0 \{
. de IX
. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
..
. if !\nF==2 \{
. nr % 0
. nr F 2
. \}
.\}
and see if that fixes the problem? I'm not sure what's causing the issue
that you're seeing and if this will take care of it, but it's at least
much simpler and has fewer constructs that might possibly confuse HP-UX
nroff.
Incidentally, since you have access to this system, could you check
something else for me? What happens if you generate a man page with
pod2man -u, install it in the man path, and then try to view it with the
HP-UX man command? You'll want to install it somewhere and use man,
instead of using nroff directly, since man does some magic, or may, to
tell nroff about the character set.
I want to change the default in podlators to be UTF-8, but I'm not sure if
HP-UX nroff will support this. A good POD file to try with this is
perlcn.pod, which comes in the pod directory under the Perl module path.
Show quoted text> BTW Pod::Man still list itself as 2.28 in generated man files.
Yeah, the version number of the module was different than the version
number of podlators itself for reasons that seemed like a good idea at the
time. This will be fixed in the latest release.
--
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
