Follow-up Comment #20, bug #67363 (group groff): Hi Russ,
At 2025-08-13T16:17:43-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> writes: >> Anywhere after the `TH` call and before the first line break in body >> text that would occur in the rendered document. > > Okay, I have removed ".if n .ds AD l" from the document preamble and now > have, immediately after the .TH macro: > > .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation. String > .\" and register settings are required by groff 1.23.0 and later. > .if n .ds AD l > .if n .ad l > .nr HY 0 > .nh > > Some of my test infrastructure wanted the .nh command to be last, and this > was easier than adjusting it. That all looks fine. When grouped together like this, GNU _troff_ -- any *roff, really -- should be indifferent to the ordering of these requests. > I have confirmed this continues to work as > expected with groff 1.23.0. Excellent! > If you would like to test with the output of the new podlators to be (not > that this is expected or should be necessary, I hope), you can do > something like the following: > > git clone https://git.eyrie.org/git/perl/podlators.git > cd podlators > perl Makefile.PL > make > perl -I blib/lib blib/script/pod2man scripts/pod2man > pod2man.1 > > to generate an *roff document for testing. The last argument can be > replaced with any other file name containing POD source. I am indeed curious to do this, and will let you know if/when my round tuits accrue appropriately. But don't gate your release on me! > I hope to make a new release in the next few days. Good luck! I wish I could say the same. > I have been including a few commands and a comment immediately after .TH > for a while, so hopefully the addition of a couple more commands won't > make any difference. I have no concrete, specific reason to suspect any misbehavior. If I knew of an anemic implementation such that I feared a hazard here, I'd tell you. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67363> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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