Re: Two trivial questions

Hi Peter, > > > Is it acceptable to use a comma for decimal fractions that are > > > arguments to requests and macros (say .ps 12,5 instead of .ps > > > 12.5) if a user's locale supports it? ... > I asked because a document in Spanish I was reviewing used > comma-separated decimal values for the d

Re: Two trivial questions

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's g-roff, just as ed(1) is e-d. History and culture are important so > it's worth persisting and educating gently in the background, > e.g. groff(1) should start > > This document describes the groff program, pronounced ‘gee-roff’, ... +1 It's

Re: Two trivial questions

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:39:51PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > I say "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff). The missing piece of information was before there was ?roff there was roff . roff Run OFF ((Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics))

Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS

> > Yes. Mac OS X, at least the version I have access to, uses Bash 3.2 as > its script interpreter, and zsh 5.8 as its interactive shell. > It's more complicated than that. Apple have announced that the default shell (Bash 3.2) will be removed in a future version of macOS, meaning ` /bin/sh` wi

Re: Two trivial questions

Initially, I pronounced it /ɡɹɔːf/ . Recently, I've begun pronouncing it /ˈdʒiːɹɒf/ , though I sometimes still mentally read it as the former. IMHO, I think we should put our foot down and

Re: Two trivial questions

Hi Peter, > Is there a correct pronunciation of groff? It's g-roff, just as ed(1) is e-d. History and culture are important so it's worth persisting and educating gently in the background, e.g. groff(1) should start This document describes the groff program, pronounced ‘gee-roff’, ... > Se

Re: Portability to Mac OS X

> 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to >5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac OS >X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make >generated *.info files part of the distribution archive and >thereby reduce the depende

Re: Two trivial questions

>> I strongly discourage using any locale other than the C locale >> in your source code. > > I would never do such a thing. Heaven forfend! The question was > prompted by a mom user off list wondering about groff input files, > not macro programming. I suggest that numbers are input with `.`

Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS

Hi, James! I think the sed portability issues in the build are resolved for now, and pushed. At 2021-10-26T10:19:23-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > I might have a useful platform to try. I am running autoconf 2.69 on a > NetBSD machine that I hardly ever change. Its sed and make are derived > from