Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> No time to dig into this issue. If you provide a patch, I'm gladly
> applying it.
The macro misc@tag is solely used for HTML output (currently). It causes the
problem in this case (the line \h'\\n[misc*.k]u'\c). I suggest to enable this
macro only in HTML mode to avoi
> Werner, is misc@tag really written by you?
I no longer can remember.
> Isn't it dangerous to use \c there? Wouldn't it be better to but a
> "if HTML" around everything inside this macro? And also the \{
> (instead \{\) without a comment that this is intented doesn't look
> trustworthy.
No t
> Without trying to complicate the discussion, I used
>
> .\"
>
> Not
> \#
>
> The former is a pure comment. It does not enter into any processing.
This is not correct. The escape `\"' strips everything to the end of
the line but *not* the final newline. Consequently,
.\"
is
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Mike Bianchi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:44:40PM +0100, Carsten Kunze wrote:
Hello Mike,
what do you mean here--Damian didn't use \#?
Carsten
His example was
.H 2 "A Heading"
.TS
.\" some table of something
.
.TE
or
.H 2 "
Damian McGuckin wrote:
> [...] I was after some words of wisdom or
> more precisely, insight, from somebody who had used such a tool for longer
> than I have.
This is totally groff specific, AT&T roff didn't have this issue (and groff
doesn't have it either if this HTML specific line is remove
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Carsten Kunze wrote:
Damian McGuckin wrote:
Or are my ideas too rooted in the past? Comments (Doug)?
I think Doug is not to blame here :)
I was not blaming Doug. Sorry Doug. I was after some words of wisdom or
more precisely, insight, from somebody who had used such
Damian McGuckin wrote:
> The use of \# looks like a fudge to fix a problem. Which sounds like a
> recipe for disaster.
Indeed :)
> Or are my ideas too rooted in the past? Comments (Doug)?
I think Doug is not to blame here :)
Werner, is misc@tag really written by you? Isn't it dangerous to u
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:44:40PM +0100, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> what do you mean here--Damian didn't use \#?
>
> Carsten
His example was
> .H 2 "A Heading"
> .TS
> .\" some table of something
> .
> .TE
> or
> .H 2 "Another Heading"
>
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Carsten Kunze wrote:
what do you mean here--Damian didn't use \#?
The use of \# looks like a fudge to fix a problem. Which sounds like a
recipe for disaster.
Or are my ideas too rooted in the past? Comments (Doug)?
Regards - Damian
Pacific Engineering Systems Internat
Hello Mike,
what do you mean here--Damian didn't use \#?
Carsten
Damian,
I find that
\# works well outside of tables.
.\# works well inside tables _AFTER_ the initial specification.
>From man 7 groff ...
\# Everything up to and including the next newline is ignored.
This is interpreted in copy mode. T
Damian McGuckin wrote:
> What is the real fix please?
... the .sp -1 and \c in misc@tag don't look reliable and depending on what
follows may cause issues. This seems to be the case here. H adds space after
the heading, with the .br at begin of DS that space gets fixed. Now DS of
cause adds
Around August 2014, there was a discussion started by Blake McBride
Problem with MM spacing
I looks like Werner fixed something but I cannot exactly figure out what
it was from that discussion.
The problem I have could be related but it is subtly different.
Let me know if I should r
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