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date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page
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There is a detailed message here:
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21239#issuecomment-1645998105 relating
to a similar issue with pod2man.
From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for groff, if
I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start.
The story about supporting AT&T troff is less clear, but my reading is that
CR may not work there.
I'm currently on leave, away from my computer, but expect to address this
in help2man after I come back.
My planned fix was to just switch to CR, as that should resolve the issue
for pretty much everyone, given the prevalence of groff.
I could provide an option with CR as the default, but that wouldn't really
help anyone who received the pre-built date.1 .
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, 15:07 Paul Eggert, <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 2024-12-11 18:28, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > troff:<stdin>:236: warning: font name 'CW' is deprecated
>
> That "CW" was generated by help2man so I'll CC this message to
> <bug-help2man <at> gnu.org> as per
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#Reports>.
>
> Can you suggest what help2man should use instead of \f(CW? Help2man
> needs be be portable to older groff and likely to traditional troff.
>
> To the help2man maintainers: apparently groff now complains about \f(CW;
> see <https://bugs.gnu.org/74808>.
>
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