Re: Bug#459884: nmap: Error in man page

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> This is because in /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz twice a line starts with
> "\.nse" which is confused for the .ns nroff "no-space mode" command.
>
> A fix suggested at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0305.html is to put
> the "\.nse" on the previous line.

I'm afraid it isn't that easy.  nmap.1 is generated from DocBook
source (docs/nmap.xml in the Nmap tarball) using xsltproc.  The best
solution would be to fix whatever part of the toolchain is producing
the invalid nroff.  If you have suggestions or ideas, I'd be happy to
hear them.  We use DocBook as the official man page source because we
also generate HTML and PDF versions.

Cheers,
-F

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