Manpage rendering faults
- From
- Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
- Date
- Jul 18, 2007, 18:47 UTC
- Message-ID
- <m3odi9im5y.fsf@pc7.dolda2000.com>
I often read manpages using a `man -t whatever | ggv -' command, since I like how it is rendered in PostScript. However, it turns out that some things in the Git manpages don't really render very well using that method. For example, in the git-rebase manpage, there are two history graphs that look like this when reading the manpages normally in a terminal:
A---B---C topic
/
D---E---F---G masterand then
A'--B'--C' topic
/
D---E---F---G masterHowever, in the PostScript rendering, they look rather like this:
A---B---C topic / D---E---F---G master
and then
A'--B'--C' topic
/
D---E---F---G masterIt took me quite a while to figure out that the rendering was wrong. Before that, I just couldn't figure out why git-rebase would do that. :)
Unfortunately, I can't say that I have a fix available -- particularly as I don't really know anything at all about asciidoc. I thought I'd at least let you know, though.
Fredrik Tolf