Bug#895840: sox: nroff typo in man page, switches from Times Roman to Courier

Ben Wong maildaemon at wongs.net
Mon Apr 16 18:58:43 BST 2018


Package: sox
Version: 14.4.1-5+b2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

There is a bug in the man page of sox that causes the font to switch
midway to Courier instead of Times Roman. You can see this problem by
viewing the man page as a PDF:

    cd /usr/share/man/man1
    zcat sox.1.gz | tbl -Tpdf | eqn -Tpdf | groff -Tpdf -man > ~/sox.pdf
    mimeopen ~/sox.pdf

The problem starts at the end of page 6. The fix is simple. Simply
close the .EX tag using .EE.  

Here is the patch:

--- sox.1.orig	2014-12-24 11:33:55.000000000 -0800
+++ sox.1	2018-04-15 16:28:29.591641564 -0700
@@ -602,6 +602,7 @@
 file into two 30 second files and ignoring the rest.
 .EX
    sox song.wav ringtone%1n.wav trim 0 30 : newfile : trim 0 30
+.EE
 .SS Stopping SoX
 Usually SoX will complete its processing and exit automatically once
 it has read all available audio data from the input files.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sox depends on:
ii  libc6             2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libgomp1          6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa   14.4.1-5+b2
ii  libsox-fmt-ao     14.4.1-5+b2
ii  libsox-fmt-base   14.4.1-5+b2
ii  libsox-fmt-oss    14.4.1-5+b2
ii  libsox-fmt-pulse  14.4.1-5+b2
ii  libsox2           14.4.1-5+b2

sox recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sox suggests:
ii  libsox-fmt-all  14.4.1-5+b2

-- no debconf information



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