Re: (ITS#8941) Font correction in man pages

[hyc@symas.com]

jtrupp@symas.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Jason Trupp
> Version: 2.4.46
> OS: Ubuntu
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (74.197.13.194)
> 
> 
> The impacted man pages contain the following (example) .ft setting in the
> "EXAMPLES" section:
> 
> .ft tt
>         /opt/symas/bin/slapadd \-l ldif
> .ft
> 
> "tt" refers to the mono-spaced font "teletype" which is no longer recognized by
> groff/troff and modern web browsers.

Nonsense. There is no relation between roff language and HTML or web browsers.

> The affected man pages include:
> ./man8/slapadd.8, ./man8/slapcat.8, ./man8/slapacl.8, ./man8/slaptest.8,
> ./man8/slapdn.8, ./man8/slapindex.8, ./man8/slapmodify.8, ./man8/slapd.8,
> ./man8/slapschema.8, ./man8/slapauth.8 and ./man5/ldif.5
> 
> The current verbiage should be replaced by:
> 
> .EX
>         /opt/symas/bin/slapadd \-l ldif
> .EE

There are no such macros in my local copy of man macros, which is on a
fairly recent (Ubuntu 18) distro.

> Please refer to man 7 groff_man for an explanation of these settings. The
> replacement syntax has been tested and works as expected.

Tested on what platforms? MacOS? BSD? Solaris? What OS revision?

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