Re: [Groff] Bug in html backend

[Mark Veltzer]

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On Friday 16 August 2002 16:40, you wrote:
> overall a good idea, a few comments though:
> > $groff_root/regression/[man|html|ps|dvi|ascii]
>
> why not simplify it and just have:
>
>    $groff_root/regression/[man|ms|mm]
>
> and then run each test with
>
>  -Thtml  -m$(dir)
>  -Tdvi   -m$(dir)
>  -Tascii -m$(dir)
>  -Tps    -m$(dir)
>
> etc
>
> > What do people think ? Please comment before I get to work about problems
> > with the scheme I presented...
>
> generally an excellent idea. It's one thing to determine whether
> groff performs an error and exits. Certainly a very useful and
> commendable test in itself.  But its another issue to generate a
> script to automatically test the validity of groff's output. How or
> would you propose to do the later?

That was the idea behind the html,ps,dvi and ascii directories.
I would put groff input into the "man" directory and the expected output into 
the appropriate directories ("html" for html etc...).
The script will compare the groff output with the expected output and will 
scream murder when they don't match...

Mark.

>
> Gaius

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