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List:       sox-devel
Subject:    Re: [SoX-devel] Proposed fix for Bug #261: absurd docs bug - PDF is doubled 14.4.1 and 14.4.2.
From:       Eric Wong <normalperson () yhbt ! net>
Date:       2016-01-27 9:07:25
Message-ID: 20160127090725.GA3469 () dcvr ! yhbt ! net
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Kevin Conder <dentalkevin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a fix for Bug #261: absurd docs bug - PDF is doubled 14.4.1 and
> 14.4.2. The problem is when any PDF is created, the result is two
> duplicate documents concatenated together.
> http://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/261/
> 
> The cause was a bug in pdfroff. The solution is to use groff's
> internal PDF builder instead.

It seems to be a known problem for a while:

	https://bugs.debian.org/538326

And I guess upstream does not consider it a bug, but they also have a
workaround using --no-toc-relocate in pdfroff which I've tested:

	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-08/msg00028.html

> So, instead of this:
> 
> pdfroff -t -man -Tps sox.1 > sox.pdf
> 
> Use this:
> 
> groff -t -man -Tpdf sox.1 > sox.pdf

My older groff in Debian wheezy doesn't support -Tpdf.

Inevitably, I'll upgrade my system, but sox is also not my project
and I think using --no-toc-relocate is the more conservative route
for older systems.

> So, how do I proceed? Do I submit a merge request through git or post
> a patch to this list?

I prefer patches on this mailing list myself.  The actual sox
maintainers are all busy, so I guess some us (Mans and I among them)
will collect changes until they return.

For reference, my trees are at git://80x24.org/sox.git and Mans at
git://github.com/mansr/sox.git

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