Bruno Haible wrote, quoting me: >>>> 1) Although the man page starts with >>>> >>>> '\" t -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >>>> >>>> the groff driver is not intelligent enough to run preconv. >>>> I have to activate the -k option explicitly. >>> >> [Quoting Werner Lemberg]: >>> This is a feature. I think it is best to not change this -- at >>> least not now. >> >> Maybe this is something that man, rather than groff, should do? >> >> Man already reads the first line of the man page, to check for the >> '\" t, etc. tag; this tells it which preprocessors to include in its >> command pipeline. I don't think it would be too difficult to have >> it also check for the coding tag, and add the -k option to the >> nroff options when required, > > I agree. Sorry, I had thought that groff, nroff or soelim were > deciding whether to run 'pic', 'tbl', etc. Since it's 'man' which > decides this, it's also 'man' which has to decide whether to run > 'preconv'.
Yes. And because man explicitly sets up the preprocessor pipeline, as is required for use with a classical troff set up, preconv should also be invoked explicitly, rather than by specifying `-k' to nroff; (AIUI, preconv must *precede* tbl, pic and friends, in the pipeline). > And /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh on SuSE Linux systems has to be changed as > well. Thanks for this pointer. I've just installed SuSE-10, and am still in the process of migrating my work from an old Mandrake-8.2 set up; I may need to know this, sooner rather than later. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
