Re: sane-hp.5.html - PROBLEM WITH MAN2HTML

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 10:31:25 PST

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    David Paschal wrote:
    >
    > Hi. I noticed recently that one of the changes I submitted for 1.0.4 to the
    > HP backend manual page isn't correct on the web-based manual page at
    > "http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-hp.5.html". In particular, I added the
    > third sentence to the "AUTHOR" section as follows:
    > The sane-hp backend was written by Geoffrey T. Dairiki. HP
    > PhotoSmart PhotoScanner support by Peter Kirchgessner. HP
    > OfficeJet support by David Paschal.
    > This is how it shows up on my system when I invoke "man sane-hp". However,
    > the first two lines are missing on the web version for some unknown reason,
    > and they don't even show up when I view the page source. I think everything
    > else in the file is OK on the web version.
    >
    > Is there something I did wrong with this change? Could somebody with write
    > access to the web page possibly fix it? I don't want people to think that
    > I'm not giving credit where it's due. :-)

    Hi,

    this looks like a problem of man2html or nroff.
    I was not able to locate the exact problem, nroff does not cut
    the text but after putting it to man2html the two lines
    disappear - may be a buffer end or screen end problem.

    Bye
    Oliver

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