Re: Release Candidate 1.23.0.rc1

[Hans Unzner]

Ok I try to restate my question.
As far as I know, an-old.tmac is used when converting a man page to HTML 
with a command like this
groff -Thtml -man a_man_page.9 > a_man_page.html
But now I want to use a modified version of an-old.tmac without 
replacing it in the /usr/share/groff/ directory.
Is it possible to do that? I always get a blank output when passing the 
modified macro with the -m option.

Thanks!
Hans

Am 12.04.22 um 20:28 schrieb Ingo Schwarze:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Hans Unzner wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 07:51:54PM +0200:
>
> > I tried this
> > groff -Thtml  -m an-old-fixed -man docs/man/man9/hostmot2.9 > hostmot2.html
> > but it produces no output.
> The above command instructs groff to load *both* an-old-fixed.tmac
> and an.tmac, so it loads the macro set twice.  I would not be surprised
> if loading the groff_man(7) macro set twice would cause some kind of
> trouble.  Then again, this command works for me with groff-current:
>
>     $ groff -Tascii -P-c -man -man /usr/share/man/man1/cvs.1 | less
>
> So loading the macros twice is not completely broken in general.
> Consequently, i suspect that something is not quite right in your
> file an-old-fixed.tmac or that that file does not exist in the expected
> directory at all.  But it's hard to say because you really do not provide
> any information that would allow diagnosing your problem.
>
> All that said, to convert manual pages to HTML, you really want to
> use mandoc(1) rather than groff(1).
>
> Yours,
>    Ingo