At 2023-06-01T22:49:58+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I would encourage you to write your eqn user's guide against > > 1.23.0.rc4. I don't expect eqn's behavior to change at all between > > that RC and final release, whenever that is. > > Got it. Thanks Branden. > > When one uses -mm, using any RC is often risky as the MM macros seem > to be the last thing to be fixed in a release cycle.
Ah. I had no idea I was recapitulating some sort of pattern here; I started tinkering with groff mm late in our release cycle because (1) I'd met my goals with man(7) and ms(7), which I had prioritized more highly; (2) I had a lot of grievances with its man page, some of which were impossible to correct without learning the package and conducting experiments; and (3) there were outstanding bug reports against it that seemed like they should be tractable. So in this case, it was just a matter of my semi-random walk nearly ending there. (More precisely, I was chewing on tbl when Bertrand returned from hiatus. His timing was exquisite; I'm still pleased with some of those tbl bug fixes.) Something I've done that had no precedent was that I added regression tests to mm. I hope the over time this will increase your confidence in groff's implementation. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/contrib/mm/tests?h=1.23.0.rc4 It's a beginning. I've got more mm fixes in my private branch. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/contrib/mm/ChangeLog?h=branden-2023-05-22 (That's a "private" branch; a personal, ephemeral one.) Regards, Branden
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