bug#74107: bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On 03/02/2025 06:24, Brendan O'Dea wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:13:44PM -0700, Glenn Golden wrote: While the patient is on the table, might it be possible to also look into this: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=74107 From what Padraig said in his response to the above re

bug#74107: bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:13:44PM -0700, Glenn Golden wrote: >While the patient is on the table, might it be possible to also look into >this: > >https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=74107 > >From what Padraig said in his response to the above report, it sounded like >fixing it on

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >I was thinking of something simpler, like this: > >.if t .if \n(.g \{\ >. ds fC \f(CR >. ds fP \fP >.\} Looks like a good option, I've done something along these lines for the next release: https://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man/-/com

bug#74107: bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, at 00:38, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > bug-help2man is is an alias to my email address, and I have fallen behind. > I finally got to working through the backlog yesterday (mostly prompted by > an email about this issue), but ran out of time. I'll push a release when > I return. >

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

I was thinking of something simpler, like this: .if t .if \n(.g \{\ . ds fC \f(CR . ds fP \fP .\} and then surrounding constant-width text with \*(fC and \*(fP. This should be legible with older troff without worrying whether the older troff supports CW. For older troff, being legible is goo

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

Use the string 'mC', defined in groff's an-ext.tmac file .\" register .g is defined to be 1 for heirloom-doc (and groff) .if t \{\ . ie \n(.g \{\ .ds mC CR .\" tm constant width font used is \*(mC .\" String mC is \*(mC . \} . el \{\ .if !'\*(mC'' \{\ . tm String "mC" alrea

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 17:47 Paul Eggert, wrote: > On 12/12/24 12:32, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for > groff, if > > I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start. > > Perhaps help2man could be changed to generate man pages

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On 12/12/24 12:32, Brendan O'Dea wrote: From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for groff, if I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start. Perhaps help2man could be changed to generate man pages that use CR if it's groff, and CW otherwise. I haven't se

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

There is a detailed message here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21239#issuecomment-1645998105 relating to a similar issue with pod2man. >From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for groff, if I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start. The story about

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

On 2024-12-11 18:28, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: troff::236: warning: font name 'CW' is deprecated That "CW" was generated by help2man so I'll CC this message to as per . Can you suggest what help2man should use instead of \f(CW? Help2man ne

bug#74808: date.1: Some remarks and and a patch for editorial changes for this man page

Package: coreutils Version: 9.5-1+b1 Severity: minor Tags: patch * What led up to the situation? Checking for defects with a new version test-[g|n]roff -mandoc -t -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -ww -z < "man page" [Use "groff -e ' $' " to find trailing spaces.] ["test-groff" is a script in th