Bug#532074: marked as forwarded (texlive-base-bin: 'man pdftex': missing .ds WB)

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has caused the   report #532074,
regarding texlive-base-bin: 'man pdftex': missing .ds WB
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) pdfTeX development <ntg-pdftex@ntg.nl>

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• To: pdfTeX development <ntg-pdftex@ntg.nl>
• Cc: 532074-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
• Subject: Re: Bug#532074: texlive-base-bin: 'man pdftex': missing .ds WB
• From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
• Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:00:55 +0200
• Message-id: <87fxe5iumw.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20090606084524.22347.24471.reportbug@debian> ("Török Edwin"'s message of "Sat\, 06 Jun 2009 11\:45\:24 +0300")
• References: <[🔎] 20090606084524.22347.24471.reportbug@debian>

Dear pdftex developers,

Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'man pdftex' shows at the bottom:
> "that generated by the  to C system (web2c), originally written by"
>
> There is a missing word after 'the': 'Web', the manpage source has:
> 'by the \*(WB to'. But there is no .ds WB at the top of the manpage.
>
> The fix would be to copy the definition of WB from another manpage, for example
> pltotf:
> .if n .ds WB Web
> .if t .ds WB W\s-2EB\s0

In current TeXLive svn, the patch would be the following.


Index: pdftex.man
===================================================================
--- pdftex.man	(revision 13610)
+++ pdftex.man	(working copy)
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 .if n .ds AX AmSTeX
 .if t .ds AY \fRA\\h'-0.1667m'\\v'0.20v'M\\v'-0.20v'\\h'-0.125m'S\fP\*(LX
 .if n .ds AY AmSLaTeX
+.if n .ds WB Web
+.if t .ds WB W\s-2EB\s0
 .\"=====================================================================
 .SH NAME
 pdftex, pdfinitex, pdfvirtex \- PDF output from TeX

We would be happy if you could apply the patch.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg

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