At 2024-03-23T00:08:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Maybe I should do with grohtml what наб accused me of doing with > > mdoc: > > Any links to that? Sounds like a funny discussion. :D
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65101 I admit that sometimes I enjoy disputation. This was not one of those times. What I have seen of наб's work product is consistently diligent and scholarly. I feel badly when I antagonize people who do good work, even inadvertently. наб did help me discover a mistake of mine; when I said I was correcting a bug noted in groff_mdoc(7) (and in mdoc.samples before it) with one aspect of my changes to `Nm`'s rendering, I was wrong. What had happened was that (I think) Werner Lemberg or Ruslan Ermilov fixed it when they rewrote groff mdoc(7) in proper groff instead of the AT&T dialect, but no one remembered to update that part of the man page. So something I thought was documentary of a defect with the status quo was actually outdated material. Also, наб's strongly aggrieved message motivated me to dig up and make handy for myself a copy of 4.4BSD's mdoc implementation, so that I could easily A/B compare it with groff. And that's a right thing to be doing. I had been using just mandoc(1), but apparently to наб, Ingo Schwarze and I are like Indiana Jones and René Belloq: we have both fallen from the pure mdoc faith. :) It may be also cold comfort, since I still have no intention of making groff mdoc(7) produce slavishly identical output to 4.4BSD, but I much prefer to "deviate", in Ralph Corderoy's term, in an _informed_ way. (And I note, _slavish_ identity with 4.4BSD output could require us to re-introduce bugs.) > I was actually a bit surprised that Paul Eggert mentioned grohtml(1) > as an improvement over man2html(1). While man2html(1) is ancient and > quite bad... grohtml(1) output is on par with that. Let's improve > that! :) Sure. Maybe we'll find out that there's someone out there who loves grohtml 1.23's output as much as наб loves groff 1.22.4 mdoc's, and I can get my ass chewed out again. 😅 Regards, Branden
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