Fwd: Re: [Groff] groff and warnings

[Mark Veltzer]

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Subject: Re: [Groff] groff and warnings
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:55:10 +0300
From: Mark Veltzer <address@hidden>
To: Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>

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On Saturday 17 August 2002 10:54, you wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> > 1. Groff manual and info state that you can allow/inhibit warnings of
> > all types according to warning names. What are the warning names ?
> > ...
> > 2. Why isn't there a flag to inhibit all warnings (like the flag that
> > exists for error messags..) ? It's pretty useful (especially for the
> > things I'm doing which is trying to convert a whole bunch of manual
> > pages).
>
> src/roff/troff/input.cc contains
>
>     { "char", WARN_CHAR },
>     { "range", WARN_RANGE },
>     { "break", WARN_BREAK },
>     { "delim", WARN_DELIM },
>     { "el", WARN_EL },
>     { "scale", WARN_SCALE },
>     { "number", WARN_NUMBER },
>     { "syntax", WARN_SYNTAX },
>     { "tab", WARN_TAB },
>     { "right-brace", WARN_RIGHT_BRACE },
>     { "missing", WARN_MISSING },
>     { "input", WARN_INPUT },
>     { "escape", WARN_ESCAPE },
>     { "space", WARN_SPACE },
>     { "font", WARN_FONT },
>     { "di", WARN_DI },
>     { "mac", WARN_MAC },
>     { "reg", WARN_REG },
>     { "ig", WARN_IG },
>     { "color", WARN_COLOR },
>     { "all", WARN_TOTAL & ~(WARN_DI | WARN_MAC | WARN_REG) },
>     { "w", WARN_TOTAL },
>     { "default", DEFAULT_WARNING_MASK },

Any chance of this table making it into the info documentation (or the manual
pages) soon ? I will be willing to do the work although I'm no familiar with
the info format that much and I guess that the info format is the master
documentation format (am I right ?)

> So it looks like `-W all' might do what you want, or `-w total' if not.
>
> > 3. Having synchronized version of the manual pages accross a LAN (for
> > instance in a development lab).
>
> A bit OT but either my machines are already running in-sync programs,
> and my man pages are therefore already in-sync too, or there are
> different versions of /bin/ls kicking about and I'd like the matching
> versions of ls(1) too.

I agree about this problem and my system addesses it. You will do something
like: "dbman ls" and the system will tell you that you have imported two
versions of the ls manual page. One from /usr/man/man1 and one from
/usr/local/man/man1. And you will be able to choose which one to display...

Mark.

> Cheers,
>
>
> Ralph.
>
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