Hi Michael, On 11/15/20 9:54 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Briefly... > >> And I also found a few weird files (such as zic.8 and zdump.8). >> Where do those come from? >> I'll try to rewrite them using man(7) markup. > > Stop!! These pages are special. They are periodically imported from > the tz project. It's an odd situation. Glibc imports these tools > from the tz project, but does not release manual pages. So, > periodically (when Paul Eggert reminds me), I resync the pages from > the tz project. In general, I try to just leave them alone (although > I have suggested a few fixes upstream to Paul), although I see > I have touched some of those pages in global edits. Okay. > >> In the meantime, >> I would also have to omit those files from the input to the script. >> Do you have a list of such files? > > AFAIR, the only other special page is bpf-helpers.7, which > is generated from the kernel source files using scripts. > Every few months, I try to remember to run the scripts > to resync. So, except for zic.8, zdump.8, and bpf-helpers.7, what do you think about the current usage of \f? I've seen a lot of appearances (many thousands), and many of them should probably be fixed. I think a script to fix them might be a bit difficult, but a small C program might be easier to write. > > Thanks, > > Michael > Thanks, Alex
