Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread John Gardner
> > .SH id=foo class=bar > Your title here Another problem my earlier idea would solve: .SH Your title here \!x X meta: set id foo \!x X meta: set class bar Or, given that \! is subject to diversions, something like: .SH Your tit

Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread Keith Marshall
On 29/09/2020 16:27, James K. Lowden wrote: > That would work, but IMO wouldn't be very convenient. I was thinking > along the lines of > > .SH id=foo class=bar > Your title here That would conflict with groff's existing SH usage; from groff_ms(7): > .SH [xx] > Unnumbered subheading.

Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread James K. Lowden
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:20:46 +1000 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > At 2020-09-27T18:30:41-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > > Any suggestions on how -ms macros could be compatibly extended to > > include classes and IDs? I've always found that aspect of my > > "proposal" daunting. > > Well, why n

Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread John Gardner
> > I hope someday a man(7) page will become worthy of such love. :D Recommend me your favourite man page which uses man(7) markup, and I'll show you how it'd look. Without changing the stylesheet. On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 19:23, G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 20

Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2020-09-28T16:37:55+1000, John Gardner wrote: > Nope, not at all. It's a hand-written portrayal of what I consider to > be a "perfect" rendition of a man page in HTML. That sure looks nice! I hope some day a man(7) page will become worthy of such love. :D Regards, Branden signature.asc Des

Re: (off topic?) Docbook? Re: manlint?

2020-09-29 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2020-09-27T18:30:41-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > Any suggestions on how -ms macros could be compatibly extended to > include classes and IDs? I've always found that aspect of my > "proposal" daunting. Well, why not have strings MS-CLASS and MS-ID? The user can set them with .ds any time t

Re: [groff] 01/08: mdoc: Accept mixed-case section headings.

2020-09-29 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2020-09-28T22:57:37+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote in > <20200927063701.vj6bg474km3ofpfh@localhost.localdomain>: > |At 2020-09-16T01:21:14+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > |> I am all with Tadziu Hoffmann in this thread. > | > |Did Tadziu comment on this thread? I

Re: Groff bug: echo foo | groff -Pbar

2020-09-29 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2020-09-28T13:30:50-0700, hacke...@member.fsf.org wrote: > I think there may be a race condition caused by the groff pipeline. Just to > be sure, please try > > echo foo | troff >&- > > My earlier command was causing troff to dump core when its stdout was > closed (by grops exiting) befo