Hi Nate,
Nate Bargmann wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:19:04PM -0500:
> * On 2018 19 Apr 13:13 -0500, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> But the -l option does exactly one thing that is easily described
>> in one short sentence that can hardly be misunderstood ("The name
>> arguments are interpreted as fil
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 01:44:06 +1000
John Gardner wrote:
> > You might like to believe that eqn, tbl, and pic could be processed
> > with grohtml
>
> I've seen grohtml's complexity and was bewildered. Hence why I
> intend to write my own. The procedures for inferring structural or
> semantic meta
* On 2018 19 Apr 13:13 -0500, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> But the -l option does exactly one thing that is easily described
> in one short sentence that can hardly be misunderstood ("The name
> arguments are interpreted as filenames").
As it has been a few days since I first read mandoc's man(1) page (
Hi Nate,
Nate Bargmann wrote on Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:28:29PM -0500:
> I now looked at mandoc's man(1) page again and the '-l' option is
> explained as you have used it here. Somehow I missed that the other day
> and had tried '-m' and '-M' to no avail. Then I managed to construct a
> directo
Hi James,
James K. Lowden wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:45:49AM -0400:
> The roff language is the only markup language in current use that was
[...]
> As Hoare said of Algol, it is an improvement over its successors.
Heh. That's a good one!
> Cross references in mdoc, for example, do not
Hi Colin, hi Nate,
Colin Watson wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:06:28AM +0100:
> "man ./apropos.1", as Nate pointed out. man-db's heuristic is that if
> the page name contains a slash then it's surely a path name instead and
> should be treated as such; I think that's a reasonable one.
Thank y
>
> *Groff is not the ideal system for generating HTML.*
It's easier than you think.You just have to separate presentational
semantics from structural and content-related ones.
Personally, I feel HTML generators should emit only semantic markup and
leave it to structure and external stylesheets
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:19:31 -0500
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I'm still undecided on the Texinfo part, though it may serve as the
> portion that ties everything together. I have man pages for utility
> programs of the project and will be writing man pages for the C
> library. Being able to collate
* On 2018 19 Apr 02:56 -0500, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I know we're veering off topic for this list.
>
> You must be new here.
Yes. :-D
I do need to spend some time in the archives.
- Nate
--
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possible worlds. The pessimist fears this
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:28:36AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Nate Bargmann wrote on Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 06:52:44PM -0500:
> > I was disappointed that unlike "man" that I find on Slackware or
> > Debian, I had to add an uninstalled man page into the db in order
> > for "mandoc" to open it. Per
> I know we're veering off topic for this list.
You must be new here.
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