URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68829>
Summary: Shore up documentation of output drivers' handling
of drawing commands
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Sat 24 Oct 2026 08:11:23 PM CDT
Category: Driver - others/general
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 24 Oct 2026 08:11:23 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
Branden observed in bug #68671: "I suspect that the man page of every output
driver that implements the `t` drawing extension command should document its
semantics, and those semantics should be as described above for internal
consistency."
I'll let Branden clarify what he's referring to in "as described above." I
have an educated guess, but this is too far into the grout weeds for me to be
fully confident of it.
In a later comment, Deri writes "This shows the linewidth is not taken into
account by troff when tracking horizontal position," and Branden responds, "I
think you're right, and this is another point that I don't think we document,
but could and should."
I think this is related enough to be covered in the same ticket, but see above
about me being out of my depth here.
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