Bug 117281

Summary:	Man pages do not display formulas correctly
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio	Reporter:	Arne Schmitz <arne.schmitz>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, kollix, mail, nicolasg
Priority:	LO
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Arne Schmitz 2005-11-29 15:49:56 UTC

Version:           3.5 (using KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" , SUSE 10.0 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15-default

The man page [g|t]roff format allows to typeset mathematical formula. This can e.g. be seen in the manpage of gluPerspective(3g). In the console with 'man gluPerspective', and with 'man -Hkonqueror gluPerspective', these formulas look fine. But with the builtin manpage viewer (man:/gluPerspective), all formula seem to be broken. Maybe the man -H facility could be utilized here? Or something similar could be done?

Comment 1 Nicolas Goutte 2005-11-30 09:37:29 UTC

The man KIO slave does not support formulas.

It also does not use man or groff directly.

As the program handling the man pages has many limitations compared to groff, I suppose that much must be fixed nefore adding support for formulas.

Have a nice day!

Comment 2 Julian Steinmann 2018-06-24 13:55:21 UTC

The man page for gluPerspective is no longer available, and I haven't been able to find another program that does include formulas in their man page. The effort that would be needed to implement support for formulas would probably considerably higher than the reward, given that a) only a few people actually use kio-man to view man pages and b) only very few programs have formulas in their man page. Because of this, I am going to close this report as WONTFIX. 

If you do encounter another package that has formulas in the man page and consider this bug to be important enough, please file a new report against frameworks-kio. Thanks!