Version: (using KDE 4.4.0) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages This bug has been copied over from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557364 and has been verified to still exist in KDE SC 4.4.0 The pages from manpages-dev package (sections 2 & 3) have lines starting with .BI in Synopsis section, used to pretty-format function declarations. Sometimes these lines are terminated with a backslash, for example in the man pages for msgsnd, wait, mmap, ipc, setbuf, dbopen, etc. There are 46 files in section 2, and 169 in section 3 with lines matching the pattern "^.BI.*\\$" When displaying one of these man pages with KDE Man Page Viewer the function declaration is corrupted. For example, instead of: int msgsnd(int msqid, const void *msgp, size_t msgsz, int msgflg); ssize_t msgrcv(int msqid, void *msgp, size_t msgsz, long msgtyp, int msgflg); there is: int msgsnd(int msqid, const void *msgp, size_t msgszmsgflg); ssize_t msgrcv(int msqid, void *msgp, size_t msgszmsgtyp, int msgflg); More precisely, looking at the man page source one could see that the quoted string after the \ on the previous line is lost.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 144942 ***