Branden, Em qua., 15 de mai. de 2024 às 18:03, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> escreveu: > One of our subscribers, T. Kurt Bond, maintains what I consider to be > the go-to version of the DWB mm documentation; it's what I use when > staring at groff's implementation and trying to make decision about > features and bugs. > > https://tkurtbond.github.io/troff/mm-all.pdf
yes, I found it online at some point! interesting material. > > its last chapter mentions some tools like spell, style and diction, I > > guess they come from this package? > > As far as I know, _those_ DWB programs did not become freely licensed as > DWB troff did, but I haven't seriously researched the issue. oh okay! > > Unless I find them, I'll have to find deroff or unroff to check my > > grammar using some other tool! > > deroff and unroff have a hard job to do, and I literally _never_ hear > testimonials from people employing them. The difficulty arises from the > nature of the *roff language, which is Turing complete. To know what > letters are going to appear on the page, you have to interpret > *roff--nearly the whole language. The more of it you interpret > correctly, the more reliable your results will be. > > I suggest using "groff -a". This "approximate output mode" works as > well or better than any deroff or unroff I've seen. The caveat is that > special characters show up in a special notation. The most notorious > example is probably the hyphen. good! I'll try groff -a, and keep in mind hyphens! > The groff_mm man page in groff 1.23.0 is much improved over earlier > versions, and even more so in groff Git. (This is my opinion as the > person who's started maintaining it.) Also many bugs have been fixed. > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff&func=browse&set=custom&msort=0&bug_id[]=&submitted_by[]=0&category_id[]=121&severity[]=0&bug_group_id[]=0&resolution_id[]=0&assigned_to[]=0&status_id[]=0&plan_release_id[]=0&summary[]=&advsrch=0&msort=0&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&report_id=225&sumORdet=&morder=bug_id%3C&offset=0#results > > (Savannah bug tracker URLs are obnoxious--sorry.) > > I would be keenly interested to hear of any bugs in GNU mm, > particularly any seemingly unintentional incompatibilities with DWB mm. I'm just starting hehe! and yes, I'm always looking up groff_mm several times, it's been of great help! > Please continue to use this mailing list as a resource for questions, > problems, or clever mm hacks you have. haha sure :) Best regards, Bento
