[bug #59962] Issues in Groff man pages

[Helge Kreutzmann]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59962>

                 Summary: Issues in Groff man pages
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: kreutzm
            Submitted on: Thu 28 Jan 2021 04:26:56 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Dear Groff maintainer,
the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
man pages both from a large variety of sources (including Groff) as
well for a large variety of target languages.

During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
original (english) man pages. Sometimes this is a straightforward
typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a
convention not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the
original.

We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
the latest upstream version once in a while, so the error might be
already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
each and every issue.

Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into
your source format.

Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
them.

I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports
should use another channel, please let me know.

Man page: groff.1.po
Issue: Why B<and> but not B<7>?

"I<groff> has man pages in sections B<1>,B< 5>,B<and> 7B<.>"
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Man page: groff.1.po
Issue: English sentence broken (and sentence garbage: »in the same section«
and »with the lowset section«)

"When there are several I<man pages> with the same name in the same I<man> "
"section, the one with the lowest section is should as first."
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Man page: soelim.1
Issue: The following graphs cannot be processed by po4a. To ease translation,
please render this directly, avoiding pic.tmac. See bootup(7) for an example

"The normal processing sequence of groff is this:"
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Man page: soelim.1
Issue: missing whitespace

"B<-I>I<dir>"





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