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author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2022-05-15 00:18:54 -0500 |
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committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2022-05-15 00:18:54 -0500 |
commit | 0d371991136a081c57131cad87380cc4aef64169 (patch) | |
tree | a5f1151eea2b1561418c037509c9e537ca0e4f30 /PROBLEMS | |
parent | df8dbb28a4901bf20f4601e2b9e9e80e8d57bc1b (diff) | |
download | groff-git-0d371991136a081c57131cad87380cc4aef64169.tar.gz |
PROBLEMS: Add items.
These are the only diagnostics I see in my builds.
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@@ -716,6 +716,49 @@ To get PostScript output from `man -t', you also need to create a Compilation Problems ==================== +* I get warnings about special characters in the groff_char(7) man page. + +troff:man/groff_char.7:1000: warning: can't find special character '.j' +troff:man/groff_char.7:1407: warning: can't find special character 'vA' +troff:man/groff_char.7:1531: warning: can't find special character 'bs' +troff:man/groff_char.7:1697: warning: can't find special character '-+' +troff:man/groff_char.7:1746: warning: can't find special character 'coproduct' +troff:man/groff_char.7:1839: warning: can't find special character '+e' + +You can ignore these. groff defines a handful of special characters for +which historical PostScript fonts usually did not possess glyphs. +Except for 'bs' (the Bell System logo), we hope to provide fallbacks or +a supplementary PostScript font in groff in the future (as was done for +the Euro glyph). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* I get a warning, "afmtodit: both Upsilon and Upsilon1 map to *U + at...". + +This is a known issue with the font mapping groff uses for PostScript +fonts. The Adobe Type 1 Symbol font has two different code points for a +Greek capital upsilon; one looks like a Latin capital Y ("Upsilon"), and +the other has a curly right arm ("Upsilon1"). In troff systems, only +one form of Greek capital upsilon is supported; a Latin capital Y is +used for its Greek homoglyph, whereas the special character '\[*Y]' +accesses the curly form of the Greek capital upsilon. We plan to +resolve this (minor) issue in a future release. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +* I get warnings about the "vasnprintf" function. + +lib/vasnprintf.c: In function 'vasnprintf': +lib/vasnprintf.c:5268:27: warning: format not a string literal, argument types not checked [-Wformat-nonliteral] +(and similar) + +The groff source tree includes gnulib, the GNU portability library +<https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/>. These warnings are about its +source code and that project's responsibility to resolve. We expect a +future release of gnulib to do so. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Compilation dies with |