pandoc -f man will miss some text?

[Freed-Wu]

Explain the problem.

Some text is missing.

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/tmux.1.gz > /dev/shm/a.nroff
$ pandoc -f man a.nroff -o a.md
$ rg display-panes a.nroff
481:.Ic display-panes
487:.Ic display-panes
2270:.Ic display-panes
2280:.Ic display-panes-colour
2282:.Ic display-panes-active-colour
2292:.Ic display-panes-time
3819:.It Ic display-panes-active-colour Ar colour
3821:.Ic display-panes
3823:.It Ic display-panes-colour Ar colour
3825:.Ic display-panes
3827:.It Ic display-panes-time Ar time
3829:.Ic display-panes
$ rg display-panes a.md
$ pandoc --version | rg '^pandoc'
1:pandoc 3.1.6
$ uname -r
6.4.12

[jgm]

tmux.1 is in mandoc format, not man...

[Freed-Wu]

So pandoc support man, doesn't support mandoc, really?

[jgm]

Correct. Of course a mandoc reader would be a welcome addition...but it's an entirely different set of macros, considerably more complex than man.

[jgm]

See #9056

[jgm]

Your best workaround at this point is probably to render the mandoc manual to HTML using mandoc -T html and pipe the result through pandoc -f html.