[tex-live] display issue with "tlmgr help" ??

[Zdenek Wagner]

I can confirm that perldoc perldoc behaves strangely om Mac but perldoc
-oman perldoc works. I have perl in /opt/local/bin/perl but port info perl
complains that perl does not exist. I do not remember how it was installed.
When I tried perldoc -oman perldoc for the first time I got this message:

$ perldoc -oman perldoc

You have an old groff. Update to version 1.20.1 for good Unicode support.

If you don't upgrade, wide characters may come out oddly.

 at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.24/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1513.

You have an old groff. Update to version 1.20.1 for good Unicode support.

If you don't upgrade, wide characters may come out oddly.

 at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.24/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1513.


I do not know the source of my groff but it was not from MacPorts. After
port install groff this message disapeared but behaviour is the same, -oman
is still needed.



Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-09-11 17:18 GMT+02:00 jfbu <jfbu at free.fr>:

>
> Le 11 sept. 2017 à 14:25, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :
>
> > Thus "pod2text" looks OK, but "pod2usage" possibly has a problem
> > in the Perl 5.24 I got from MacPorts
>
> Hi,
>
> I was communicated off-list some info with confirmation that
> there is some specific issue with the Perl 5.24 from MacPorts
>
> I can't understand the details but to recapitulate my further experiments:
>
> $ perldoc perldoc
>
> gives bad result
>
> but
>
> $ perldoc -oman perldoc
>
> gives ok result
>
> and also
>
> $ perldoc -M Pod::Perldoc::ToMan perldoc
>
> gives ok result
>
> and also
>
> $ perldoc -M Pod::Perldoc::ToText perldoc
>
> produces ok result (without colours nor bold face)
>
> If I remove from PATH visibility of the MacPorts Perl
> I obtain OK result already from
>
> $ perldoc perldoc
>
> without further ado or tinkering
>
> Although surely quite unrelated, let me mention too that from
>
> -----
> $ man perldoc
> -----
>
> I get
>
> -----
> NAME
>        perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
>
> SYNOPSIS
>            B<perldoc> [B<-h>] [B<-D>] [B<-t>] [B<-u>] [B<-m>] [B<-l>]
> [B<-F>]
>                [B<-i>] [B<-V>] [B<-T>] [B<-r>]
>                [B<-dI<destination_file>>]
>                [B<-oI<formatname>>]
>
> ....
> -----
>
> note the extra formatting "B<foo>" but following pages appear OK
>
> The same is produced from a "man perldoc" with PATH including
> the /opt/local/bin
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-François
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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