On Thu, May 04, 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Doug McIlroy :
> > It would be well to have the Linux manpages project on board for man macro
> > discussions. Is anyone from that project on this mailing list?
> >
> > If not, they should probably be invited to participate. A job for Peter
> > Shafte
Hi Colin,
Colin Watson wrote on Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:07:28PM +0100:
> The main practical reason I've stuck with man(7) in some cases
> (such as in man-db)
Actually, for man-db, the choice of man(7) is somewhat understandable,
since man-db is most relevant in situations where mandoc(1) is not
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:29:57PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> There is little you can do to make writing legacy man(7) code
> easier for the novice. The problem is that it always requires
> mixing two different language levels: man(7) macros and low-level
> roff requests and escapes. And that
Doug McIlroy :
> It would be well to have the Linux manpages project on board for man macro
> discussions. Is anyone from that project on this mailing list?
>
> If not, they should probably be invited to participate. A job for Peter
> Shafter?
I believe I was the last person to modify the Linux m
It would be well to have the Linux manpages project on board for man macro
discussions. Is anyone from that project on this mailing list?
If not, they should probably be invited to participate. A job for Peter Shafter?
Doug
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 11:30:20AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > But - has always meant hyphen in pre-groff troff because it's a lot
> > > more common to want a hyphen in writing than a minus sign.
> >
> > _I_ would claim this interpretation was a mistake.
>
> Well, 7th Ed. documents that hav
> "James K. Lowden" hat am 4. Mai 2017 um 02:13
> geschrieben:
>
> Why not? ISTM we'd have better manpages if they weren't constrained to
> the rendering capability of a VT-100 terminal. For example, equations
> or pictures could augment the text, or replace some of it, when
> "printed".
I
Hi Mike,
> > But - has always meant hyphen in pre-groff troff because it's a lot
> > more common to want a hyphen in writing than a minus sign.
>
> _I_ would claim this interpretation was a mistake.
Well, 7th Ed. documents that have `.if n' and `.if t' use - for an
English hyphen and \- for a num
Hi Branden,
> Ingo wrote:
> > There are real-world systems (sold today) where neither \(lq nor the
> > 'c' conditional is supported.
And I know from experience that they become much more palatable after
building source for better versions of their binaries, and adding new
programs they don't have
Hi jkl,
> Carsten Kunze wrote:
> > There are ways to detect the formatter but a manpage must not do
> > this.
>
> Why not? ISTM we'd have better manpages if they weren't constrained
> to the rendering capability of a VT-100 terminal. For example,
> equations or pictures could augment the text
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