On 12/20/20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2020-12-16T20:30:33-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
>> Ubuntu is a Debian-derived distro, and the concurrent "local timezone"
>> thread here points out Debian's proclivity to customize groff in
>> incompatible ways.
>
> I don't think that statement is quite fa
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, Steve Ross via wrote:
> In the resulting PDF output file, the ellipsis appears on page 10,
> as expected. However, on the same line, about six characters
> further to the right, I also see about three characters being
> over-struck, which is unexpected.
>
> I have attached b
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, Dorai Sitaram via wrote:
> I'm not completely sure it's true for all modern applications,
> but I hope you're right that it doesn't hurt in general to
> explicitly type two spaces after a sentence. As a dinosaur,
> that's what I used to do, but trained myself out of it af
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote:
> I think you're confusing starting every sentence on its own line with
> using newlines nowhere *except* between sentences.
You are right. My distaste for hitting return instead of space
after a period clouded my reading of the advice. :)
> > Furthermore
> I'm not completely sure it's true for all modern applications, but I
> hope you're right that it doesn't hurt in general to explicitly type
> two spaces after a sentence. As a dinosaur, that's what I used to
> do, but trained myself out of it after reading a high-profile tirade
> scolding me (at
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:54AM -0500:
> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository groff.
>
> commit ca0dfa5ff724eaf21a8b79f4ee825979ef3294fc
> Author: G. Branden Robinson
> AuthorDate: Sun Dec 20 14:10:09 2020 +1100
>
> groff_mdoc(7
I'm not completely sure it's true for all modern applications, but I hope
you're right that it doesn't hurt in general to explicitly type two spaces
after a sentence. As a dinosaur, that's what I used to do, but trained myself
out of it after reading a high-profile tirade scolding me (at least
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:54AM -0500:
> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository groff.
>
> commit 11301d8bd374bf1d4db3ac43c9e8e9ca45836a45
> Author: G. Branden Robinson
> AuthorDate: Sun Dec 20 14:29:21 2020 +1100
>
> groff_mdoc(7
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:56AM -0500:
> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository groff.
>
> commit 854fec5025af62c6ba6b72f9075bc71317d83a60
> Author: G. Branden Robinson
> AuthorDate: Sun Dec 20 18:57:05 2020 +1100
>
> [mdoc]: Emit
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 02:20:57PM +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
>
> Within an MM document, a level 1 heading like
>
> .H 1 "Heading"
>
> is rendered as
>
> 4. Heading
>
> Often, it is forced to a new page using
>
> .nr Ej 1
>
> I would like also to currently force it to
>
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