[bug #50770] .PSPIC macro at bottom of page causes unwarranted page break

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #17, bug #50770 (group groff): Hi Dave, I'll give Deri some time to rebut you if he would like to, but in the meantime... At 2024-09-13T20:06:05-0400, Dave wrote: > > Any change would also have to consider the impact if PSPIC is used > > within a diversion, i.e. not at the poin

[bug #50770] .PSPIC macro at bottom of page causes unwarranted page break

2024-09-14 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #18, bug #50770 (group groff): Hi Dave, Our ideas about backward compatibility are probably quite close. > What he suggests seems akin to saying a compiler, in order to be backward compatible, must produce the same executable from version to version. This philosophy would fore

[bug #45502] [troff] .if, .ie, .el parsing incompatible with Unix V7, DWB, and Heirloom Doctools troff

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #21, bug #45502 (group groff): [comment #16 comment #16:] > The branch portion of a control flow request in *roff is read _as if it were on an input line by itself_. I'd like to point out a _roff_-grammatical parallel here. Consider this example, originally from bug #65474, com

[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

2024-09-14 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #66103 (group groff): Hello Branden, thanks for handling the report. I'll note down where you are not in agreement with the report, so it won't be reported again in the future. Regarding the questions raised, here is my reply. It's a bit tough in this form, so please acc

[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #66103 (group groff): Status: Fixed => None Assigned to:gbranden => None Open/Closed: Closed => Open Planned Release:

[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #66103 (group groff): Hi Helge, At 2024-09-14T12:35:35-0400, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > thanks for handling the report. I'll note down where you are not in > agreement with the report, so it won't be reported again in the > future. Okay. I won't get upset if they are.

[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

2024-09-14 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #66103 (group groff): Hello Branden, regarding po4a macros - I'm also sometimes learning by Martin Quinson (maintainer of po4a) reply to my bug reports there.The best source I know of is Locale::Po4a::Man(1). Thanks for handling the ISO/IEC reference. As you reopend t

[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #12, bug #66103 (group groff): At 2024-09-14T13:17:52-0400, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > regarding po4a macros - I'm also sometimes learning by Martin Quinson > (maintainer of po4a) reply to my bug reports there.The best source I know of > is Locale::Po4a::Man(1). Ah, thanks--I ha

[bug #50770] .PSPIC macro at bottom of page causes unwarranted page break

2024-09-14 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #19, bug #50770 (group groff): [comment #17 comment #17:] > However, you might not be wrong in a practical sense. > > 5.28.1.3 Diversion Traps > > > A diversion is not formatted in the context of a page, so it lacks page > location traps; Right, and co

[bug #50770] .PSPIC macro at bottom of page causes unwarranted page break

2024-09-14 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #20, bug #50770 (group groff): [comment #18 comment #18:] > Our ideas about backward compatibility are probably quite close. Yes, as Branden drove home, my analogy of compiled code is closer to the generated grout than to the final typographic layout. But that was a flaw in my

[bug #66219] Line numbering interacts unexpectedly with diversion definition

2024-09-14 Thread Dave
URL: Summary: Line numbering interacts unexpectedly with diversion definition Group: GNU roff Submitter: barx Submitted: Sat 14 Sep 2024 09:06:55 PM CDT Category: Core