<h3 dir="auto">Describe the issue:</h3>
<p dir="auto">I'm still not able to generate man page as I've reported that in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1039531458" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/20229" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/numpy/numpy/issues/20229/hovercard" href="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/20229">#20229</a> however recently I've changed methodology of generate man pages from using sphinx&lt;&gt;setuptools integration (<code class="notranslate">python setup.py build_sphinx</code>) to straight use <code class="notranslate">sphinx-buid</code> command. All because already sphinx&lt;&gt;setuptools is marked as deprecated.<br>
As part of that change I've started using <code class="notranslate">sphinx-build -n</code> switch.<br>
Sphinx still is not able to generate man page however before it crashes it shows many warnings which are mot related to generate man page.<br>
Here is the output</p>
<p dir="auto">You can peak on fixes that kind of issues in other projects<br>
<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="1234679684" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/issues/289" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/latchset/jwcrypto/pull/289/hovercard" href="https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/pull/289">latchset/jwcrypto#289</a><br>
<a class="commit-link" data-hovercard-type="commit" data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/click-contrib/sphinx-click/commit/abc31069/hovercard" href="https://github.com/click-contrib/sphinx-click/commit/abc31069">click-contrib/sphinx-click@<tt>abc31069</tt></a></p>
<h3 dir="auto">Reproduce the code example:</h3>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-python notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="`/usr/bin/sphinx-build -n -T -b man doc/source build/sphinx/man`"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-s">`/usr/bin/sphinx-build -n -T -b man doc/source build/sphinx/man`</span></pre></div>
<h3 dir="auto">Error message:</h3>
<p dir="auto"><em>No response</em></p>
<h3 dir="auto">NumPy/Python version information:</h3>
<p dir="auto">1.22.4</p>
<p dir="auto">New parameter needed, to add the columns which need to be skipped.<br>
e.g:<br>
columns = (1,2,3)  - to skip columns 2,3,4</p>