[Novalug] Odd man -t output: who's to blame?

[Matthew Thompson]

In my "non-interactive top" thread, I was enlightened to the power of 
ps.  So, I figured I'd print out the ps manpage for some off-line 
reading.  I tried to accomplish this in the usual means:

man -t ps | ps2pdf - ps.manpage.pdf

Unfortunately, it looks like the ps manpage might use some techniques 
that man/groff doesn't like.

If you run that command, you will get a lot of numeric overflow errors 
and a single addition overflow, but it runs.  The output, though, leaves 
a lot to be desired.  When you get to the "STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS" 
section, the descriptions are all single lines that extend beyond the page.

So, following some old man page howto, I found that this:

 > gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz | gtbl | geqn | gtbl | \
 > groff -Tps -mandoc | ps2pdf - ps.manpage.pdf

worked pretty well with only a few errors.  (The second gtbl seems to 
help quell the errors.)

So, my question is, is there a better man command to process this into 
postscript?  Or, is this a bug I should file with Fedora bugzilla...and 
if so, with whom?  Is this a man, groff, or procps problem?

No matter the answer, thanks to the LUG for all the help today.

Matt
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Matt Thompson, PhD
Naval Research Laboratory
202-767-2160