[bash 2.05b.0]
> `gxditview' has some trouble with the man page of `bash'. From page
> 54 up to the end, it produces only trash output, while the display
> of `xditview' is alright. `xditview' just remarks an error `Unknown
> command d', although `groff' produces its intermediate output
> without such a command and does not produce any error.
groff and gxditview both work correctly. It's a typo in bash.1:
--- bash.1~ 2005-06-23 06:49:20.940238576 +0200
+++ bash.1 2005-06-23 06:49:20.942238272 +0200
@@ -7093,7 +7093,7 @@
This option has no effect if \fBread\fP is not reading input from the
terminal or a pipe.
.TP
-.B \-u \fIfd\FP
+.B \-u \fIfd\fP
Read input from file descriptor \fIfd\fP.
.PD
.PP
Using \F instead of \f makes groff use font family `P' (palatino)
instead of the default `T' (times roman).
The above problem only shows up with groff's -X option: The document
is processed with -Tps (which has font family `P') but displayed with
gxditview (which doesn't have family `P').
`xditview' works better because it has extended code (in function
MapDviNameToXName) which maps unknown fonts to a default one, while
gxditview decides to display nothing. I wonder whether similar code
should be added to gxditview. Volunteers?
Personally, I very much dislike option -X: Using (g)xditview for
previewing groff's PS output is ugly, and gv or any other decent PS
previewer do a much better job today. Good looking output for
gxditview can be produced with -TX75 or -TX100 (or its variants
-TX75-12 and -TX100-12).
Werner
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