Re: How to test a manpage? ‘nroff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man’.
2010/7/14 Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>:
> Dear all,
>
> before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage, but
> realised that 'nroff -man' does not produce the same output as 'man' itself.
> Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtools package.
>
> With 'man samtools', users can see tables like the following one in the section
> 'SAM FORMAT'.
>
> ┌────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> │Col │ Field │ Description │
> ├────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
> │ 1 │ QNAME │ Query (pair) NAME │
> │ 2 │ FLAG │ bitwise FLAG │
> │ 3 │ RNAME │ Reference sequence NAME │
> (...)
>
> But with 'zcat /usr/share/man/man1/samtools.1.gz | nroff -man | less', here is what
> I get.
>
> center box; cb | cb | cb n | l | l . Col Field Description _
> 1 QNAME Query (pair) NAME 2 FLAG bitwise FLAG
> 3 RNAME Reference sequence NAME 4 POS 1-based leftmost POSi?
>
>
> The workaround I found was to copy the new manpage in /tmp/man/man1, and call
> 'man -M /tmp/man samtools'. Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
> manpage the same way as users will get it by using 'man' ?
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles
>
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