Wim --
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022, Wim Stockman wrote:
> Here is the updated script to set the internalname in an interactive way.
I performed some tests altering the internalnames in groff font
files. First I converted FreeSerif.otf and FreeSerifItalic.otf to
groff fonts using the offical install-fon
Hi Alex,
At 2022-12-12T18:33:52+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 12/12/22 15:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > +.\" - RETURN VALUE :: Deprecated --/
> > +.SS Deprecated
> > +The following functions return
> > +the length of the total string that they tried to
Hi Branden,
On 12/12/22 15:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
+.\" - RETURN VALUE :: Deprecated --/
+.SS Deprecated
+The following functions return
+the length of the total string that they tried to create
+(as if truncation didn't occur).
+.IP \(bu 3
+.BR strlcpy (
Hi!
On 12/12/22 14:58, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2022-12-12T09:06:22+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Eric, can reposurgeon retroactively add an earlier release to git
without changing all the existing git hashes (which are referenced
all over the place, in the bug tracker and elsewhere)? I kno
Hi Dave,
At 2022-12-12T08:38:45-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 12/12/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2022-12-12T09:06:22+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> >> A Git commit ID is effectively a hash of its ancestry so that
> >> history can't be changed in this case without the unwanted ripple.
> >
On 12/12/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-12-12T09:06:22+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> A Git commit ID is effectively a hash of its ancestry so that history
>> can't be changed in this case without the unwanted ripple.
>
> I concur with Ralph's analysis.
I feared this might be true but h
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:19:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The 4.2BSD provenance is particularly valuable, in that it illustrates
> how the terminology was retained
Earlier I replied and showed a snapshot of the history.
Contemporary:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
All Sections
At 2022-12-12T09:06:22+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Eric, can reposurgeon retroactively add an earlier release to git
> > without changing all the existing git hashes (which are referenced
> > all over the place, in the bug tracker and elsewhere)? I know
> > nothing about how these hashes are g
Hi Colin!
On 12/12/22 14:39, Colin Watson wrote:
[Sorry for the delay; a succession of business travel, holidays, and
Covid have together eaten up much of my time recently.]
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 01:28:12AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 11/17/22 01:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I thin
[Sorry for the delay; a succession of business travel, holidays, and
Covid have together eaten up much of my time recently.]
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 01:28:12AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 11/17/22 01:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I think the adoption of the term (sub)chapter has a po
Hi Alex,
At 2022-12-11T17:40:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> This is a gentle ping about my terminological reforms about manual
> page chapters.
[...]
> Hi Colin, Ingo, and Branden,
> On 11/17/22 01:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I think the adoption of the term (sub)chapter has a potenti
Hi Doug,
On 12/12/22 01:34, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
A nice property of "section" is that it's recursive--applies to any
level of a hierarchy--so you don't have to struggle to keep
level-specific terminology straight.
Doug
Hmm, since the concerns expressed by Ralph seem to be at least as itchy
Hi Dave,
> Eric, can reposurgeon retroactively add an earlier release to git
> without changing all the existing git hashes (which are referenced all
> over the place, in the bug tracker and elsewhere)? I know nothing
> about how these hashes are generated, so this may be utterly
> infeasible.
A
Hi Michael,
> I don't see a good reason to break an established term and instead
> suggest to follow the above and s/chapter/section/g.
man(1), apropos(1), and other commands use -s to specify sections and
many finger muscles won't change now.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Peter,
Here is the updated script to set the internalname in an interactive way.
Kind regards,
Wim Stockman
Op ma 12 dec. 2022 om 09:18 schreef Wim Stockman :
> Hi Peter,
> I'm the one who sent you the patched version.
> Thanks for your remark.
> Probably the only thing to do about it is let t
Hi Peter,
I'm the one who sent you the patched version.
Thanks for your remark.
Probably the only thing to do about it is let the user choose the
internalname with an interactive question like you already do for the
fontname ?
I'll change the script to give it a try.
Kind regards,
Wim Stockman
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