Re: .SPACE in mom

Ulrich -- Email to your address is being returned undelivered. I have no idea why. Yours is the only address that fails and I have made no changes to my email configuration. I'm replying on the list to make sure you see my replies. On Tue, Nov 09, 2021, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > Thanks a lot.

Re: Use `strsave()`, not `strdup()`.

Hi Branden, > Stroustrup bangs the exception drum pretty hard in Chapter 14 of the > special edition of _The C++ Programming Language_ Groff's source was a light-touch use of C++, more C with Classes, AIUI, but even so it was enough to deter contributors who knew to avoid the language and the sli

Re: Use `strsave()`, not `strdup()`.

Hi Ingo, > Actually, just exit(1) is better than abort(). The abort() facility > is intended for catching violations of invariants (i.e., catching > bugs). abort(3)'s only intention is to terminate the program abnormally with dumping core by default to aid investigation. When to do that is subj

Re: Two trivial questions

Hi Dave, > > Bug. CSTR 54 doesn't allow it, nor does > > info groff 'Changing Type Sizes' | less > > It doesn't seem quite that clear-cut to me. Neither of those sources > explicitly states what *roff does with additional parameters to .ps, > or with nonnumeric trailing characters to a numer

Re: Use `strsave()`, not `strdup()`.

[Sorry, Ralph--it's another doorstop of a message. If it's any consolation, I tried to ensure that all 10 external references were authoritative.] Hi, Ingo! At 2021-11-08T01:28:19+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Not so for me; i learned C with a Microsoft Visual Studio compiler > in the late 1980ie

Re: .SPACE in mom

Hi, Peter wrote: > It's in the entry for 'sp' in the groff info manual. In case it helps find it, info groff 'Manipulating Spacing' | less -- Cheers, Ralph.