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Bug 321146 - When showing a manpage, some tags appear in the view
When showing a manpage, some tags appear in the view
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: Man Pages
2.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on: 326058
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-10 11:38 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-01-09 05:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-11-10 11:38:46 UTC 
This bug has been opened here:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/3199

"This is shown when invoking "man c++filt" from the commandline:

SYNOPSIS
       c++filt [-_│--strip-underscores]
               [-j│--java]
               [-n│--no-strip-underscores]
               [-p│--no-params]
               [-s format│--format=format]
               [--help] [--version] [symbol...]

When opening this page in yelp, this is shown:

SYNOPSIS

Header "SYNOPSIS" c++filt [-_|--strip-underscores] [-j|--java]
[-n|--no-strip-underscores] [-p|--no-params] [-s format|--format=format]
[--help] [--version] [symbol...]"
Comment 1 Jörg Höhle 2005-11-16 16:32:02 UTC 
Maybe the particular problem here is that c++filt.1.gz has complex troff
sequences, including the definition of own macros.
E.g. the IX macro, as used in
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
is defined within the file itself.

However, I've seen much simpler manpages (e.g. xscreensaver, date) still not
correctly formatted by yelp, which is a pity, as yelp provides good looking output.
Comment 2 Brent Smith (smitten) 2006-01-07 06:06:16 UTC 
bug 326058 has support to ignore the .IX macro so marking a depend on that bug - other issues are still not fixed though, such as .ie, and .de requests which are if clauses and macro definitions respectively.  Hopefully we can support these in the future.
Comment 3 Brent Smith (smitten) 2006-01-09 05:06:54 UTC 
fixed in HEAD (with respect to the .IX macro being ignored)