[MPlayer-DOCS] Polish manpage

[Diego Biurrun]

Torinthiel writes:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:22:37PM +0200, Torinthiel wrote:
> > True, it's much better. So the .txt format is fixed. Now for the HTML
> > one. I'll sit to it, but I can't think of anything more than adding
> > device htmp-pl (or whatever new name - I don't want to modify existing
> > devhtml, ast it's removing functionality).
> 
> Damn, I'm confused. Adding a new device based on the existing one should
> be pretty simple. cp -R devhtml devhtml-pl. But when I run groff -mman
> -Thtml-pl then it just hangs. ps says that groff has launched
> {pre,post}-grohtml, quite normal. pre-grohtml however has launched
> another groff that has exited and probably *grohtml waits till it
> outputs something.
> 
> Anyway, the changes made in devhtml works, and are pretty simple. In
> every file just remove the &entities; I've mentioned in the sed script.

You might want to contact the groff people about this.  Jonas Jermann
has been in contact with its author in the past and he was quite
helpful.  He is

Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org>

and probably you could/should try to contact the relevant mailing
lists as well.

Diego