Re: build system: devpdf/download regression; was: groff man(7) `B` macro...

2022-06-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Brief self-correction here... At 2022-06-18T15:06:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Your patch seems valid and minimally intrusive to me; it may look a > little bit weird (for an Automake file), but the circumstances leading > to it are weird. Normally I think Automake would require us to sto

Re: build system: devpdf/download regression; was: groff man(7) `B` macro...

2022-06-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Ingo, At 2022-06-18T19:16:10+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > I have made a bit of progress with these. I now suspect both are > related to each other and not limited to any specific implementation > of make(1). Thanks for digging into this. I think you uncovered not a simple accident, but an ov

man(7) .TH font change, was: groff man(7) `B` macro...

2022-06-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:40:46AM -0500: > At 2022-06-17T20:53:13+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> * In the top left corner of manual pages written in man(7), >>the page name in the header line was set in italic instead >>of in the correct roman font.

Viewing C/A/T Troff Output (Re: groff man(7) `B` macro behavior with `\c`, and input traps)

2022-06-18 Thread Dan Plassche
Hey Branden and Group, On Sat, 18 Jun 2022, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I sure wish someone would leak the Unix 4.0 (1981) troff sources. The ditroff conversion before the releases of Documenter's Workbench? > Maybe a shorter pole would be to write a cat2dit(1) for V7-era C. For reviewing C

build system: devpdf/download regression; was: groff man(7) `B` macro...

2022-06-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:40:46AM -0500: > At 2022-06-17T20:53:13+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> during the testing described below (which i foolishly expected to >> be minor), i tripped over several new candidates for regressions >> that look unrelated. Thi

Re: groff man(7) `B` macro behavior with `\c`, and input traps

2022-06-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Ingo, At 2022-06-17T20:53:13+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > during the testing described below (which i foolishly expected to > be minor), i tripped over several new candidates for regressions > that look unrelated. This is not a serious report yet, i'll have to > investigate in more detail and

Re: Warn on semantic newlines

2022-06-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Alexandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 05:47:40PM +0200: [ ... warning about a comma in the middle of an input line ] > Yeah, just have this floating around in your mind, and if you find a > solution some day that's great; otherwise, it looks like an impossible > thing.