[GRASS5] [bug #3345] (grass) Bug#313307: v.in.ascii.1: IP/br/RS table gone

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:39:30AM +0200, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3345
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Package: grass-doc
> Version: 6.0.0-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/lib/grass/man/man1/v.in.ascii.1
> 
> On Debian, this part of v.in.ascii.1 disappears upon processing:
> 
>   The primitive codes are as follows:
>   .RS
>   .IP
>   'A': area (boundary)...
> 
> Proof:
> $ g.manual -m v.in.ascii|sed '/are as follows:/,$!d'|od -c|sed 's/[0-9]\+//g;5q'|tr -d \\n;echo
> Theprimitivecodesareasfollows:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThecoordinates
> 
> It just becomes newlines.
> Same if using g.manual or just man(1).

Right. The primitive codes are eaten away.
This is a problem of 

 tools/g.html2man/g.html2man

which seems to damage the bullet list.
 
> /usr/share/doc/grass-doc/html/v.in.ascii.html is OK.
> 
> Also,
>    .IP "\fBcolumns\fR=\fIstring\fR
>    Columns definition for points mode in SQL style, for example:
>    .br
>    'x double precision, y double precision, cat int, name varchar(10)'
>    .IP "\fBx\fR=\fIinteger\fR
> 
> has the example line deleted. Proof:
> $ man v.in.ascii|sed '/Columns definition/,$!d'|od -c|sed 's/[0-9]\+//g;6q'|tr -d \\n;echo
> Reformatting v.in.ascii(1), please wait...
> ColumnsdefinitionforpointsmodeinSQLstyle,forexample:\n\nx\bx=_\bi_\bn_\b


Right. Unfortunately another problem of g.html2man.

> So there is some .IP .br problem.
> 

Markus