[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2023-10-02 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #12, bug #60061 (project groff): [comment #10 comment #10:] > I'll fix that, probably with the latter. Fixed (though with the former), along with other changes, in last month's [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=468456d4 commit 468456d4]. __

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2022-06-05 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #60061 (project groff): [comment #10 comment #10:] > Two places where the link can go stale is enough... Ah, yes, I hadn't considered that. The lessons of bug #60305 are too soon forgotten. ___ Reply to this it

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2022-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #60061 (project groff): [comment #9 comment #9:] > The Texinfo manual elsewhere retains the sentence "A free implementation of 'grap', a preprocessor for drawing graphs, can be obtained as an extra package," which seems needlessly coy: may as well include here either th

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2022-06-03 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #60061 (project groff): The Texinfo manual elsewhere retains the sentence "A free implementation of 'grap', a preprocessor for drawing graphs, can be obtained as an extra package," which seems needlessly coy: may as well include here either the link to _where_ it can be o

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2022-05-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #60061 (project groff): commit 2c652e943affb8b665ff225eb56dcbb34162957c Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Mon May 30 11:48:26 2022 -0500 doc/groff.texi: Drop stub-heavy chapters. The "Preprocessors" and "Output Devices" chapters were mostly stubs for

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2022-05-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #60061 (project groff): Status:None => In Progress ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Messag

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-03-06 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #60061 (project groff): A little more polished, with options (see README) and the default build mimics the version produced by pdftex, although that is not my favourite! README == To build the groff book use make. The default settings will produce a book in a very s

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-24 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #60061 (project groff): Here's the build environment. Just untar and cd into texi2groff-beta and "make". There are still many rough edges, there is a list of items not handled by the parser along with a count of how often they triggered, which is present after the "Coping

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60061 (project groff): Hi Deri, None of your attachments are showing up in the bug. My guess is that it's due to the "16384 kB" limit. Though maybe the true limit is lower; my separate PDFs of our Texinfo manual plus a 300+ PDF of all our man pages comes in at under 8

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-18 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60061 (project groff): Trying with a tar file containing complete build. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Sav

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-17 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #60061 (project groff): I'm trying to attach the pdf. If it fails please let me know if I can send it direct by email. ___ Reply to this item at: _

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-17 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60061 (project groff): I am not sure if you are aware of some work I did awhile ago around making groff produce the "groff book" rather than Tex This was a program which converted the texinfo file into a roff file which could be run through groff with the ms macro to pr

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60061 (project groff): Regarding Chapter 4, Larry Kollar's ms.ms has been resurrected since I made that proposal, and I'm working on updating it. While of narrower scope, I suppose it's worth explaining my tactical plan somewhere. I'm trying to get doc/ms.ms up to date

[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

2021-02-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
URL: Summary: Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual Project: GNU troff Submitted by: gbranden Submitted on: Mon 15 Feb 2021 03:49:12 AM UTC Category: Core Severity: 1 -