Problems in editres.1, libinput.4, s3.4, xlogo.1, Xserver.1, xterm.1

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Jun 13 22:08:30 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:16:14PM -0400, esr at thyrsus.com wrote:
> This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man
> page for which you appear to be responsible.  If you are not the right
> person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database.

please update your database to email xorg-devel@ (not xorg@) for these bugs.

Alan already commented on the others, the libinput.4 patch is also already
on master, just hasn't been released yet. thanks.

Cheers,
   Peter

> See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and
> why these patches were generated.  Feel free to email me with any
> questions.  Note: These patches do not change the modification date of
> any manual page.  You may wish to do that by hand.
> 
> I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of
> markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real
> alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template.
> 
> --
>                              Eric S. Raymond

[...]

> Problems with libinput.4:
> 
> List syntax error. This means .IP, .TP or .RS/.RE markup is garbled.
> Common causes include .TP just before a section header, .TP entries
> with tags but no bodies, and mandoc lists with no trailing .El.
> These confuse doclifter, and may also mess up stricter man-page
> browsers like Xman and Rosetta.
> 
> --- libinput.4-unpatched	2018-05-28 00:12:40.955816597 -0400
> +++ libinput.4	2018-05-28 00:12:53.779729445 -0400
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
>  .BI "libinput Tablet Tool Pressurecurve"
>  4 32-bit float values [0.0 to 1.0]. See section
>  .B TABLET TOOL PRESSURE CURVE
> -.TP7
> +.TP 7
>  .BI "libinput Tablet Tool Area Ratio"
>  2 32-bit values, corresponding to width and height. Special value 0, 0
>  resets to the default ratio. See section



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