> .TP
> .B \-scale \c
> .IR xfac [, yfac ]
Very clever. I wish I'd thought of it when I was editing
the v7 manual. Then it would have become a standard idiom.
Has nobody tried this during the nearly 40 years since?
Doug
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
|G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:14:58AM -0400:
...
|> If that means a new macro, I'm fine with that.
...
|For man(7), introducing new macros would be worse. There, it would
|utterly break portability because other implementations do exist,
Now i r
Hi,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:14:58AM -0400:
> No, what I really want is a TP-ish macro that lets you break the tag
> across multiple input lines, so the writer doesn't have to use font
> escapes.
>
> If that means a new macro, I'm fine with that.
I think that plan is
At 2017-04-25T15:00:26+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> I don't worry about groff HTML output at all. By the basic design
> of groff, it is unable to produce good HTML, so i basically just
> ignore groff HTML output completely. I fully agree with you that
> i see no need to change it. I'd even go on
Hi,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:26:32AM -0400:
> At 2017-04-25T12:47:25+0200, Carsten Kunze wrote:
>> Carsten Kunze wrote:
>>> Ingo Schwarze hat am 24. April 2017 um 16:39 geschrieben:
>>> Assuming this is considered the right direction, how would one
>>> best implement,
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
|At 2017-04-24T18:29:57+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
...
|I entirely agree with the virtues of semantic of "presentation"-based
|markup. However, this could be mitigated by encouraging a consistent
|style in groff_man(7) itself. Some coordination with Michael Kerr
At 2017-04-25T12:47:25+0200, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> > Ingo Schwarze hat am 24. April 2017 um 16:39 geschrieben:
> >
> > Assuming this is considered the right direction, how would one
> > best implement, in doc.tmac-u and an-old.tmac, - == \- == U+002D
> > for all devices?
>
> Isn't it already do
At 2017-04-25T07:04:27+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:22:25PM -0400:
> > At 2017-04-24T18:29:57+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:41:22AM -0400:
>
> >>> to the more readable (and, I submi
> Ingo Schwarze hat am 24. April 2017 um 16:39 geschrieben:
>
> Assuming this is considered the right direction, how would one
> best implement, in doc.tmac-u and an-old.tmac, - == \- == U+002D
> for all devices?
Isn't it already done for UTF-8 in the files you mentioned?
Both contain:
.if '\*[
