Hello Doug, for (1), I am CCing Michael Kerrisk — and the procedure to report issues on the man pages is tracked here https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html (In brief: email mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx and CC linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). Best -Federico > On Dec 27, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not > reveal that only a few format codes are permitted. > > Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only > %,%e,%f,%g are permitted. But what does a bare % mean? > > In fact pic rejects a bare %. However it does accept > %%, which is supposed to print a single %. Pic, > however prints %%. > > So I believe we have > 1. An incompleteness in pic(1) > 2. An error in "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" > 3. An error in pic itself > > Doug >
