[bug-notifications] [groff 0004280]: /opt/csw/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition

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http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4280 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                james
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Project:                    groff
Issue ID:                   4280
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2010-02-16 19:22 CET
Last Modified:              2010-02-19 11:06 CET
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Summary:                    /opt/csw/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad
character definition
Description: 
Tested on build10x. When trying to format the autossh man page with gnroff,
gnroff throws a warning:

$ gnroff -man autossh.1 > /dev/null
/opt/csw/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition

The first part of the formatted man page (everything before the first .Sh)
looks a bit garbled, although I don't know whether that's because of the
above warning.

R] .if 0nl]   .    setup-header
...
UNTITLED                             LOCAL                           
UNTITLED
...
$] .tm Usage: .Sh section_name ...
(http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=0.c])

I have attached the man page so that you can reproduce the warning message
if necessary (and maybe shed some light on the garbled output). WRT to the
warning message there is also a related bug report over at Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/263524.
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 (0007479) james (manager) - 2010-02-19 11:06
 http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4280#c7479 
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I played with this some more last night but still can't find why it reports
the bad char but even with message it produced output. Reading "man
groff_man" the page isn't even a groff standard man page so rewrite it
first and then re-ask the question on groff.  It will need rewriting as a
standard man page suitable for /usr/bin/man (unless pre-formatted for cat)
so rewrite it properly in the first place and forget groff.  Ask if you
need help with this.