[bug #63074] [troff] support construction of arbitrary byte sequences in device control commands

2024-01-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #20, bug#63074 (group groff): Sleeping on the problem provoked illumination, as it sometimes does. In any other _roff_ context, how would we smuggle something that looks like an escape sequence into a different interpretation context? By escaping it. $ cat EXPERIMENTS/device-

[bug #63074] [troff] support construction of arbitrary byte sequences in device control commands

2024-01-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug#63074 (group groff): Status: In Progress => Need Info ___ Follow-up Comment #21: [comment #20 comment #20:] > I'll bolster the unit tests I have pending to make sure this works oka

[bug #52463] anything that talks to standard error should identify itself

2024-01-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug#52463 (group groff): Depends on: => bugs #57611 ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message s

[bug #61052] .version file not updated as aggressively as it should be

2024-01-09 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #15, bug#61052 (group groff): [comment #8 comment #8:] > full reasoning can be found at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-03/msg00051.html. Quoting Branden from this March 2022 message: "Savannah #61502 can be reopened and re-resolved with instructions and a pointe

[bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?

2024-01-09 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #7, bug#59962 (group groff): Helge, do you have any response to comment #6 here? In particular, it's still unclear what the "separate file" is that you reference in item 4 of comment #4, or whether this is something that warrants keeping this bug open, since that comment also st

[bug #57747] Malfunctioning romanian special characters

2024-01-09 Thread Dave
Update of bug#57747 (group groff): Status: Need Info => Unreproducible Assigned to:None => barx Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___

[bug #64913] [PATCH] Makefile.am: variable "HOST" is not created by "automake"

2024-01-09 Thread Dave
Update of bug#64913 (group groff): Item Group: Build/Installation => Documentation Summary: Makefile.am: variable "HOST" is not created by "automake" => [PATCH] Makefile.am: variable "HOST" is not created by "automake"

[bug #63074] [troff] support construction of arbitrary byte sequences in device control commands

2024-01-09 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #22, bug#63074 (group groff): Whew, rather a lot to cover! First the original "bug" was "fixed" by including -f U-T in the command. Next it became a wish to include non-latin character in the bookmarks. This is now working on my branch, waiting for Branden's integration. Then