Task for this weekend:
https://movq.de/v/b05a7ce782/vid-1758959332.mp4
When you call man ascii, you get this nice table, but there’s a weird vertical line at the bottom. That line is supposed to be a vertical rule and is supposed to go from the bottom of the table all the way to the top.
Let’s see if I can debug this. (Not getting my hopes up at this point, but I’ll try.)
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(#qchnx6q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Is this for your own OS? 🤔
#uxq2acq
(#qchnx6q) @prologic@twtxt.net No, this is a Linux manpage from the man-pages project: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man/man7/ascii.7
I do have an idea what’s going on. Could be an unfortunate interaction between the table preprocessor tbl and the man macro package. 🤔
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(#qchnx6q) Okay, now that I knew what to look for, I found existing bug reports:
Most importantly:
This is resolved in the groff trunk.
🥳
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(#qchnx6q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I got an empty line through the table, similarly to one of the linked bug reports, just at a different location:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-27-13-56-13.png
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(#qchnx6q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That looks like an older bug report. Which groff version is that (groff --version)?
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