Re: [Groff] Groff pipeline plumbing problem

[Rick Richardson]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:42:39PM +0000, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is the fix (with the previous fixes) to the pipeline problem.
> It was related to the groff -Z option (the -Z was omitted).

Gaius:

That fixed the pipeline problem.  Thanks.

The only outstanding bug with grohtml that I have still left is the
missing vertical whitespace (blank line) between paragraphs with man
pages, such as with this example:

$ cat xxx.1
.TH xxx 1 "26 December 2001" "xxx 1.7"
.SH NAME
xxx \- Test
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xxx
.RI [ options "] [" symbols ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
.PP
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.

$ /usr/local/test/bin/groff -t -man -Thtml xxx.1 > xxx.html

The HTML that is produced contains...

        <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
               cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr valign="top" align="left">
        <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%">
        <font color="#000000">dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa. dsdsa
        dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa. dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
        dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.</font></td></table>

        <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
               cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr valign="top" align="left">
        <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%">
        <font color="#000000">dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa. dsdsa
        dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa. dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.
        dsdsa dsdsa dsad dsadsa dsadsa.</font></td></table>

It seems to me that there needs to be a "<br>" between the
two tables.  Or maybe wrap a <p>...</p> pair around the tables.

-Rick