Re: xman bug : looking for volunteer (Bug#598)

[Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De>]

> 
> > Package: xbaseR6
> > Version: 0.93-7
> > 
> > xman doesn't display the full manual page (for example, selecting the
> > section 8 manual page 'lpd', it discards the NAME and SYNOPSIS section
> > and part of the first sentence of DESCRIPTION).
> > 
> > The xman manual page claims great flexibility in configuring xman, but
> > none of the advertised options are relevant.
> 
> I need someone who is interested into digging in this problem. I don't
> know whether this problem is caused by xman or the manpage formatter
> or the formatter macro set. I reproduced it, this bug affects more man
> pages than the one given above.

I will look at it this weekend. 

	Helmut

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Helmut Geyer                                Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de