Re: man pages, font escape sequences, and font warnings (was: groff man(7), the PD macro, and compact lists)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 16:40:13 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
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Hi Bjarni,

At 2026-05-12T20:08:35+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> See Debian bug #1120023 in "man-db":
> 
> "How to ensure seeing warnings from groff."

Yup--you're right.

Here's a link: https://bugs.debian.org/1120023

Colin:

Maybe `--warnings` should imply whatever internal variable gets
populated when s = getenv("MAN_KEEP_STDERR") && *s != '\0'?

Or the man page description of `--warnings` should reference the
environment variable?

Just some ideas.

Regards,
Branden

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