[bug #62264] [troff] string iteration handles escape sequences inconsistently (want `for` request)

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62264 (project groff): As you may be aware one of the goals for the new version of gropdf I have been working on is to make it "friendlier" for unicode support. To do this I had to drop using asciify and pass the original string to gropdf since the special chars such as

[bug #63028] document nroff \o limitations in modern terminal emulators

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #63028 (project groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > (And maybe (3) that if they want to use \o for accented > characters, there are more robust ways to achieve that.) Nowadays, most of groff's Texinfo examples try to exhibit groff best practices, but the manual d

[bug #62346] [PATCH] [gropdf] B0-B6 sizes don't work as documented

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #62346 (project groff): [comment #6 comment #6:] > nonsense page sizes like "" provoke no warning even with > all warning categories turned on. Fixed 7 months later in [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=49aff9b9 commit 49aff9b9], probably independ

[bug #64352] [ms] should putting a table/display in a keep affect spacing after it?

URL: Summary: [ms] should putting a table/display in a keep affect spacing after it? Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:07:44 AM UTC Category: M

[bug #62916] [hdtbl] consider deprecating

Update of bug #62916 (project groff): Category: General => Macro - others/general Summary: list things to deprecate => [hdtbl] consider deprecating ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Narrowing scope

[bug #64353] [troff,drivers] deprecate 'f' drawing command

URL: Summary: [troff,drivers] deprecate 'f' drawing command Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:14:03 AM UTC Category: General Se

[bug #64354] [troff] discourage or reject use of 'F' drawing command

URL: Summary: [troff] discourage or reject use of 'F' drawing command Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:17:55 AM UTC Category: None

[bug #64354] [troff] discourage or reject use of 'F' drawing command

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[bug #64353] [troff,drivers] deprecate 'f' drawing command

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[bug #64354] [troff] discourage or reject use of 'F' drawing command

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[bug #64353] [troff,drivers] deprecate 'f' drawing command

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[bug #64352] [ms] should putting a table/display in a keep affect spacing after it?

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[bug #64355] [libdriver, gropdf] accept '-' as synonym for '_' in directive names

URL: Summary: [libdriver,gropdf] accept '-' as synonym for '_' in directive names Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:37:12 AM UTC Category: Gene

[bug #64356] [troff] tag use of '\~' with 'w' command

URL: Summary: [troff] tag use of '\~' with 'w' command Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:41:38 AM UTC Category: Core Severity:

[bug #64344] support arbitrary ligatures

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64344 (project groff): I support this. Tadziu's proposal seems well-considered (not a suprise). I think the best would be a specification that allows sequences of characters to be mapped to groff entity names, either in terms of already-compounded entities (similar to