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From: das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott)
Subject: Re: Man pages broken on the next, not tbl
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Date: Sat, 4 May 1991 19:27:45 GMT

In this same area of discussion, a related question:  I saw in a previous
article on man pages that the nroff -man format automatically does tbl, eqn,
and nroff on files.

I have been trying to put the complete X Windows documentation into Librarian.
The chapters in the documentation are nroff format--at least the machine
thinks so:

zardoz> file CH01
CH01:   roff, nroff, or eqn input text

When I index these with Librarian, I set ixBuild's options so that it assumes
man format on all these files.  Indexing is no problem, but when I view the
files via Librarian, after the message "Formatting man file...", and the text
shows in the window, there are still formatting characters mixed with the
text:

T{ Keyboard events T}      T{ T}
T{ Pointer events T}      T{ T}
T{ Window crossing events T}      T{ T}
T{ Input focus events T}      T{ T}
T{ Keymap state notification event T}      T{ T}
T{ Exposure events  T}      T{ T}
T{ Structure control events T}      T{ T}
T{ Window state notification events T}      T{ T}

etc.

It is clear from the makefiles in the documentation directories that they are
intended to be eqn'd and tbl'd before nroff or troff.  Otherwise, the text
looks pretty nice...highlighted text shows up, etc.  It would be great to get
these to display with full formatting, though.  Any ideas on what these stray
characters do?

Thanks!

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