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Bug 349677 - manpage rendered wrong
manpage rendered wrong
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: Man Pages
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-02 15:07 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2010-12-20 16:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

Attachments
Yelp rendering of XVisualInfo (86.20 KB, image/png)
2007-06-22 00:54 UTC, Frederik Hertzum 		Details
man rendering of XVisualInfo (81.32 KB, image/png)
2007-06-22 00:55 UTC, Frederik Hertzum 		Details

Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-08-02 15:07:31 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/50318

"Yelp renders several manpages wrong. For example, in the kill manpage, the table of signals is rendered as floating text and the headings contain ".B" markers.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/3086771/scr.png
Screenshot of the kill manpage
..."
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-23 14:40:36 UTC 
Other Ubuntu bug about manpage rendering issue: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/67308

"Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Help
2. Type "man fbdev" into search field, hit Enter
3. Get fbdev manpage
4. Notice how the quotes (") are substituted with "q" symbol.

I'm using Edgy beta
...
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4918751/Screenshot.png
Screenshot demonstrating the bug"
Comment 2 Onkar Shinde 2007-02-28 18:12:07 UTC 
This bug is present in GNOME 2.18 beta 2 also as available in Ubuntu 7.04 alpha.
Comment 3 Frederik Hertzum 2007-06-22 00:54:35 UTC 
Created attachment 90422 [details]
Yelp rendering of XVisualInfo
Comment 4 Frederik Hertzum 2007-06-22 00:55:06 UTC 
Created attachment 90423 [details]
man rendering of XVisualInfo
Comment 5 Frederik Hertzum 2007-06-22 00:56:50 UTC 
The bug appears to be the same I have seen lately (I've only just started to use Yelp).

I've uploaded a two screenshots of renderings of XVisualInfo -- one from Yelp and one from man.

This was made on Fedora 7 (Yelp version 2.18.1)
Comment 6 Radu-Cristian Fotescu 2007-12-26 00:31:11 UTC 
The part with fbdev(4) being incorrectly rendered is showing here too, but it's not a Yelp bug, as Konqueror can't display correctly fbdev(4) either. RHEL 5.1 clones, GNOME 2.16.
Comment 7 Shaun McCance 2010-12-20 16:09:18 UTC 
Fixed by Rupert's gutting of the man-parsing code.