[MPlayer-DOCS] Polish manpage

[Diego Biurrun]

Maciej Paszta writes:
> On Wednesday 25 of August 2004 01:45, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > It would be _possible_, sure, but it's such an ugly hack..  There must
> > be a better solution that involves some groff voodoo.  Please try to
> > find out what is going on here and tackle the problem at the source,
> > instead of papering over it with bandaid sed scripts.
> 
> Voodoo - not :) But it requires changing some definitions in font/devhtml as 
> far as I know....
> 
> > Try the following command line:
> >
> > groff -m man -Tutf8 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt
> 
> Strange output and definately not correct... (not all characters are shown 
> properly..) :)

Is the latin1 output device better than ascii?

> > and tell me the results.  Also try -Tascii8 and see if it goes better.
> 
> I don't have such output device :(

:-(

What groff version are you using?  I have 1.18.1 here.

Have a look at

http://mplayerhq.hu/~diego/mplayer.1.txt

and see if ascii8 is better.

Diego