Hello. As reported in Debian bug #323210, some text appears in the manpage that has no concordance with its surroundings. In fact, it is due to some change in groff (I guess) that invalidated some macro in the manpage. There are two macros affected. These macros were used to add duplicated text, but they are used only once. Anyway, I fixed the error by escaping the EOLs with \ . It would be ideal to look the myriad of manpages that could carry .ds statements and fix them. O:-) Thanks.
Created attachment 2897 [details] [review] Patch to fix multi-line macros in the manpage.
Yeah - when XFree86 converted to using cpp to generate manpages, they pulled out the \ and broke a whole bunch of these multiline macros. I fixed the ones in the Xt man pages earlier this year under bug #2331 / attachment #1718 [details] [review]. Looks like the same thing here.
Fix committed to HEAD. Should be included in 6.9RC1 & 7.0RC1. Thanks for the report/patch.
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