On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 17:47 Paul Eggert, <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 12/12/24 12:32, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for > groff, if > > I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start. > > Perhaps help2man could be changed to generate man pages that use CR if > it's groff, and CW otherwise. >
That seems like a reasonable choice if it is possible to identify groff. I noted another option in a reply off list earlier today. I haven't seen a help2man release lately; anybody know what's up with that? > bug-help2man is is an alias to my email address, and I have fallen behind. I finally got to working through the backlog yesterday (mostly prompted by an email about this issue), but ran out of time. I'll push a release when I return. --bod >