`man groff_char' misbehaving

[j. van den hoff]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:01:32 +0100, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:43 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
>
>> I see the following output from `man groff_char' with version 1.22.3 of
>> `groff' under macos 10.10.5:
>>
>> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: unrecognised format `O'
>> /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:294: giving up on this table
>>
>> (many more similar lines following)
>>
>> and the finally appearing manpage indeed does not contain the tables
>> listing the glyphs as it should. any ideas?
>
> I can confirm that behavior under 10.11.1 with the groff port installed.
>
> I guess OS X's man program is not able to read the groff port's manpage.
>
> Installing the man port seems to work around this problem. Is that  
> satisfactory?

ah yes, never occured to me tht there might be a man port as well. thank
you for this solution. regarding "satisfactory": for my personal use, yes
it is. generally, I'd say no, since it seems osx's man does something
wrong/non-canonical, no?

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