Re: [Groff] Bad table images with groff -t -man -Thtml xxx.1

[Rick Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:31:53AM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:07:53PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> > 2) The table image is completely wrong.  It looks like a
> >    clipping of what on the manual page from about 1" lower.
> 
> And the answer to my question is to use this command line with groff
> version 1.17.2:
> 
>       groff -P-o0 -t -man -Thtml xxx.1 > xxx.html
> 
> This gave good results with the test manual page I attached, as well
> as with my full manual page (other than the missing paragraph
> spacing).
> 
> Unfortuantely, groff-current (pre 1.18?) as of today cannot be used.
> It creates a real mess of output with lots of horizontal lines
> throughout.

And the answer to this is that box macros like this one don't work with the
current version -- they cause <hr>'s to be emitted.  The 1.17.2 version
just ignored the line drawing:

'\"
'\"     bx - box a constant width string for making keycaps
'\"
.de bx
.ie n \{\
.RB [ \\$1 ]
.\}
.el \
.ft CW
.nr par*bxw \w'\\$1'+.4m
\Z'\v'.25m'\D'l 0 -1m'\D'l \\n[par*bxw]u 0'\D'l 0 1m'\D'l -\\n[par*bxw]u 0''\
\Z'\h'.2m'\s-1\\$1\s+1'\
\h'\\n[par*bxw]u'
.ft P
.\}
..


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