Hi Branden, On 7/29/22 23:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex!At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:On 7/29/22 15:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:I don't think you're abusing it but you are employing some heavy machinery that brings some limitations with it. The worst from my perspective is that using tbl(1) in man pages limits your flexibility in terms of line length. Terminal windows can be all kinds of crazy sizes.Oh, didn't the Mesopotamians already know about the standard tablet size of 80x24? :D "Thou shalt set your tablet size to 80x24 or larger, but never smaller; or thou shalt not report a bug if the formatting becomes unreadable. Thou shalt not assume your neighbor has a tablet wider than 80 characters, so thou shalt not write past it." I think that's what the famous tablets said.Mmm, so it would be nice to overcome that line intersection problem in grotty(1). Maybe for groff 1.24...Sure; compare: u64 mode; /* Mode for O_{CREAT,TMPFILE} */ u64 mode; /* Mode for O_{CREAT,TMPFILE} */Ah, you want the comments to wrap extra-attractively. Let me counter by suggesting that most of the time, the comments should fit on the same ouput line anyway.
Hmm, considering that the amount of multiline comments with 80-char terminals is still non-negligible (not in this page, but in all type pages), I think I prefer to consistently support them, even when I don't need. That will have 2 side effects: contributors will experience a more consistent syntax; and I will support smaller terminals with extra-attractive comments.
I'll send a v5 with another page, to show that tabs are not good enough. And I'll try to not forget CCing groff@.
I'm really looking forward to killing off another application of `PD`.Ok. T think I'll remove .PD, and leave the extra blank line until .TS is fixed. A blank line will not hurt too much.The fix should be in my next push; I merely got caught in a yak shave called groff_mm(7).
Nice. Still, I woudn't make use of it so fast, if the side effect in old groff(1) versions was something more than a blank line. Poor contributors are unlikely to have latest groff for git HEAD :)
Regards, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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