# pre-built man pages have ".ft" noise

3 messages from 2009-11-14 to 2009-11-15. Participants: Björn Steinbrink, Stephen Boyd.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21622

## Björn Steinbrink, 2009-11-14 23:47

Subject: pre-built man pages have ".ft" noise
Message-ID: <20091114234702.GA10708@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091114234702.GA10708%40atjola.homenet

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Hi Junio,

since 916a3c4b7 "Autogenerated manpages for v1.6.5.1-69-g36942", some of
the man pages in the "man" branch have a lot of the ".ft C" and ".ft"
noise. Apparently, you upgrade some parts of your system, as the changes
that introduced the noise also show:

-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.74.3 <http://docbook.sf.net/>

And that new version seems to somehow end up producing:
-\.ft C
+\&.ft C

Björn

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## Stephen Boyd, 2009-11-15 00:45

Subject: Re: pre-built man pages have ".ft" noise
Message-ID: <1258245915.9650.94.camel@swboyd-laptop>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1258245915.9650.94.camel%40swboyd-laptop
In-Reply-To: <20091114234702.GA10708@atjola.homenet>

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On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 00:47 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> Hi Junio,
> 
> since 916a3c4b7 "Autogenerated manpages for v1.6.5.1-69-g36942", some of
> the man pages in the "man" branch have a lot of the ".ft C" and ".ft"
> noise.

I thought this was already noticed a few days ago by Jonathan Nieder.

                              From: 
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH todo] dodoc: detect doctype-xsl version before making
docs
Message-id: <20091112023139.GA1627@progeny.tock>

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## Björn Steinbrink, 2009-11-15 01:34

Subject: Re: pre-built man pages have ".ft" noise
Message-ID: <20091115013423.GA13853@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091115013423.GA13853%40atjola.homenet
In-Reply-To: <1258245915.9650.94.camel@swboyd-laptop>

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On 2009.11.14 16:45:15 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 00:47 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> > since 916a3c4b7 "Autogenerated manpages for v1.6.5.1-69-g36942", some of
> > the man pages in the "man" branch have a lot of the ".ft C" and ".ft"
> > noise.
> 
> I thought this was already noticed a few days ago by Jonathan Nieder.
> 
> From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH todo] dodoc: detect doctype-xsl version before making
> docs
> Message-id: <20091112023139.GA1627@progeny.tock>

Ah, sorry for the noise then. I only searched the subject lines for
"man", my fault.

Björn

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