[self-follow-up]
At 2024-06-23T19:13:27-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Decisions still to be made:
[...]
> 3. Whether to alter the behavior of the `ad` request, as the attached
> patch contemplates. Doing so accommodates man page authors' DWIM
> intentions, at some risk to altering the formatting of documents
> that follow `.ad c` or `.ad r` with `.ad`, expecting to restore
^^^^^
Sorry, thinko here. I should have said `.na`.> left alignment instead of merely disabling adjustment. It's not > clear to me how many such documents actually exist. I don't think > I've ever seen one that I didn't write as a test case. > Consider the following document. I should have challenged the at this point to predict the output. :) > $ cat ATTIC/madness.roff > .pl 1v > .ll 9n > abc def\p > .na > ghi jkl\p > .ad l > mno pqr\p > .na > stu vwx\p > .ad > yza bcd\p > .ad l > .ad b > efg hij\p > .na > klm nop\p > .ad c > qrs tuv\p > .na > wxy zab\p > .ad > cde fgh\p > .ad r > ijk lmn\p > .na > opq rst\p > .ad > uvw xyz\p > .ad b > .ad 100 > ABC DEF\p Regards, Branden
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