On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Now, the '-s' flag issue... Unless I am misunderstanding or > > misreading something, > > soelim main | groff -Tutf8 -k > > and > > groff -Tutf8 -ks main > > should produce identical output, however the -s flag is ignored and > > groff spits out garbage. What's up? > > I believe this issue came up last month as well.
I missed it. There've been an awful lot of groff posts in my inbox this past year. :) > Apparently groff has "always" been this way, since preconv was written. > > Bjarni noted this and complained about it in Savannah #59442, back in > November 2020. > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59442 > > I raised some concerns about changing the preprocessing order Is that all it is, then? 'groff -ks' is invoking preconv before soelim? My confusion grows. If soelim, invoked at the start of the chain, renders the sourced file correctly, it suggests that soelim is performing preconv magic on it. Why, then, doesn't '-s' do the same, regardless of preprocessing order? > Ingo suggested deferring consideration of the issue, since we > were, ehrm, "close to a release". Agreed. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
