Re: Rendering the Bash man page with commercial Unix/System V nroff

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/12/24 2:00 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> I see that most of my proposed man page changes from the recent series
> landed in the devel branch.  Thanks!
>
> I did notice that this one and its follow-up did not.  Was that on
> purpose?  Is there something I can do to improve the patch?

I just ran out of steam.

> The reason I submitted 17/18 and 18/18 is because, out of the box,
> Solaris 10 nroff won't render the special characters \(ha and \(ti,
> which does some violence to the Bash man page.[1]

I wonder if there's a way to make Solaris use the pre-formatted nroffed
versions of the man pages that are in the bash distribution.

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