URL:
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Summary: [troff] ignore temporary indentation with `ce` and
`rj`
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 03 Jun 2023 12:18:21 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 03 Jun 2023 12:18:21 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
"Should temporary indentation be ignored when centering?"
I raised this question on the mailing list.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-05/msg00079.html
I got one vote of support and no other comments.
One question remains: should we "ignore" a temporary indentation by utterly
disregarding it, or by holding it in abeyance until centering (or
right-aligning) ends?
The former would be less disruptive to existing documents (and easier to
code), so I propose to do that, along with issuing an diagnostic. I propose
for the diagnostic to be an error, not a warning, in part because we have no
existing warning category that fits this scenario well. But also because I
have few compunctions about throwing users hard errors when their inputs
demand nonsense.
And this scenario *is* patent nonsense as noted at the link above.
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