Am 16.11.2011 09:43, schrieb Ingo Schwarze: > Hi, > > do you hold any opinion on this one? > > Thanks, > Ingo > > ----- Forwarded message from Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> ----- > > From: Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:43:27 +0100 > To: groff@gnu.org > Subject: [Groff] let man print volume headers like mdoc > > Hi, > > When the mdoc(7) .Dt macro is called without a third argument, > the page header uses the default volume name associated with > the second (section number) .Dt argument, controlled by the > doc-volume-ds-N strings in tmac/doc-common. > > On the other hand, when the corresponding man(7) .TH macro is > called without a fifth argument, the volume name in the page > header is left blank. > > Yuri Pankov (of IllumOS) suggested to make the two more similar > by letting man(7) fill in the default volume name as well. > I like the idea - reducing gratuitious differences between > mdoc(7) and man(7) seems good to me - and would like to > implement the change in mandoc(1). > > However, keeping groff(1) and mandoc(1) in sync is even more > important than synching mdoc(7) and man(7), so i'm asking for > your opinion first, whether you would accept the following patch, > or a variant of it. > > I think the strings are so short that there is no problem > with having them both in doc-common and an-old.tmac; > on the other hand, if you disagree, i could move them to > their own file and include them from both places, but > i fear the code will be uglier, whereas this looks quite nice. > > Yours, > Ingo > > > --- tmac/an-old.tmac.orig Fri Dec 31 08:33:09 2010 > +++ tmac/an-old.tmac Sun Oct 30 22:37:29 2011 > @@ -145,7 +145,17 @@ > . ie (\\n[.$] > 3) .ds an-extra2 "\\$4\" > . el .ds an-extra2 \"Sun Release 4.0 > . ie (\\n[.$] > 4) .ds an-extra3 "\\$5\" > -. el .ds an-extra3 \"System Programmer's Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'1' .ds an-extra3 General Commands Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'2' .ds an-extra3 System Calls Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'3' .ds an-extra3 Library Functions Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'3p' .ds an-extra3 Perl Programmers Reference Guide > +. el .ie '\\$2'4' .ds an-extra3 Kernel Interfaces Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'5' .ds an-extra3 File Formats Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'6' .ds an-extra3 Games Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'7' .ds an-extra3 Miscellaneous Information Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'8' .ds an-extra3 System Manager's Manual > +. el .ie '\\$2'9' .ds an-extra3 Kernel Developer's Manual > +. el .ds an-extra3 > . ds an-init > \\.. > .
Basicly it seems ok for me, ntl some (non roff note). * Sun Release 4.0 Why ? The names differ from what i see in the man page. e.g.: Sec 4 Special files Should that be in sync also ? re, wh
