GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 321620
yelp man: .IP macro produces no output
Last modified: 2009-09-22 01:48:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: Many manpages use the .IP macro (see man(7)). E.g. yelp man:date Part of the end of the output appears as follows: "SEE ALSO The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command <--- empty line! should give you access to the complete manual." -- the actual command is not shown. It should say "info coreutils date". Note that in the paragraph above, "info" and "date" are displayed in boldface, like when running man in a terminal. So it's not all of what's boldface in man output that disappears. The relevant manpage source is: and .B date programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP .B info coreutils date .PP should give you access to the complete manual. I'm using yelp 2.12.1 from Ubuntu Breezy on i386. Other manpages show the same effect, e.g. '[', ls Also, date(1) uses .IP several times, each time causing missing text. I very much appreciate having a nice manpage formatter on my Ubuntu/Gnome/Debian/Linux system. Thanks for your effort! Regards, Jörg Höhle Steps to reproduce: 1. yelp man:date 2. yelp man:ls 3. manpage using .IP macro Actual results: Expected results: See all text from manpage Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
This is reproducible, confirming.
marking dependency on bug 326058 since that patch fixes this issue
fixed in HEAD