Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:46:30PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> Lintian has recently started emitting this groff warning for ftlint.1
> in freetype-demos as part of its man pages check:
>
> groff-message an.tmac:<standard input>:66: warning: tbl preprocessor
> failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE
> macro called with TW register undefined)
I haven't looked at your code in detail, but this sounds similar to
https://bugs.debian.org/1042358. groff is most likely observing that
you're using the tbl macros but haven't invoked groff with -t, which
means any warnings it issues are going to be inaccurate representations
of how pages are actually rendered in practice. Your starting point
should be to add -t to the groff command line in this check, and then
see what else shows up after that.
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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