#173021 man2html: Tabs with \t are not properly escaped into an HTML spacing entity

Package:
man2html
Source:
man2html
Description:
browse man pages in your web browser
Submitter:
Jay Bonci
Date:
2005-07-18 03:19:13 UTC
Severity:
normal
#173021#5
Date:
2002-12-14 07:49:48 UTC
From:
To:
man2html does not properly escape tabstops inside of nroff/groff man pages.  The \t character should resolve to an entity that is about 4 spaces long, such as:

<tt>    </tt>

While it is not a severe bug, it affects the display fidelity of the man page greatly.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux starlite 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jul 28 18:31:56 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages man2html depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.0.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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