Bug#192144: xlibmesa-glu-dev: manpages broken
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 03:29:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:18:44PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote:
> > Sorry for the meager explanation, but I thought it was obvious when
> > viewing the manpages. Matrices are displayed with _huge_ vertical space:
> Bizarrely, I can't reproduce this with man but can when I run the exact
> same commands executed by man by hand. I'm now confused and will try to
> figure out what on earth's going on.
By default, man passes the -s option to pager, which (normally)
squeezes multiple blank lines into one. This is (generally) the Right
Thing(tm). David: you might want to look into what's wrong with your
pager (check the $PAGER env variable and the /etc/alternatives/pager
link), and stick to something that supports -s. Colin: you might want
to try postscript output (man -Tps) and see how the page looks that
way; as far as I'm concerned, that's the real test of a man page.
cheers
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