On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 02:39:27PM -0800, Ben Longbons wrote: >> The ctlseqs.txt file is not built from ctlseqs.ms if it is modified >> (which it should be, since it is wrong in a few places). > > I don't recall any bug reports on the topic.
I was working on that when I hit this. Besides the one you mentioned, the xterm-specific `DECSED 3` is missing, for example. I'm sure there was something with one of the string controls too ... > ctlseqs.txt is part of the upstream sources, has been since June 2006. Source means "preferred format for modification", not "in a tarball somewhere". By your definititon, all of Windows is open-source. >> * Remove the -P options to preserve formatting, less can handle it. > > The makefile doesn't use -P. By using environment variables and extra pipe commands. But in any case, a version *without* stripping all that formatting info, viewable in the terminal, would be nice. > no. It's an ASCII file. Pretty bullets don't help much, considering that > less than 1% of the file uses that. For interesting typography, refer to > the PDF. That's a matter of opinion. Using the letter `o` for bullets is particular ugly to me. >> * -Thtml >> >> The html and pdf formats provide significant features not in the txt > > groff's html format isn't useful. I don't use that anymore: You mean the format that is identical to the format you produce, other than the (admittedly better) filenames for the included `.png`s? -Ben
