Re: Milestone reached: hyperlinked mdoc(7) documents in PDF

2024-03-17 Thread Lennart Jablonka
.Dd March 18, 2024 .Dt EMPTY-CALLED-AR .Os .Sh NAME .Nm empty-called-Ar .Nd a groff \-mdoc bug .Sh DESCRIPTION Empty called Ar: .No Ar That's it: This text right here shouldn't be oblique. .Pp I found this in your mandoc man page PDF in .Xr makewhatis 8 , as .Bd -literal -offset indent \&.Fl t Ar

Re: Use public inbox in groff [was: Remove redundant tests]

2024-03-17 Thread Dave Kemper
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > If Sourceware's policy is to maintain an archive only consequent to some > sort of _official_ request, then such would probably need to come from > Bertrand Garrigues, who is still groff's GNU maintainer. Additionally, Werner is the adm

Re: Milestone reached: hyperlinked mdoc(7) documents in PDF

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden! On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 05:23:20PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > Following up my earlier announcement regarding man(7),[1], I'm pleased > to report that we have a functioning PDF hyperlink story for the mdoc > package. > > * The Mt macro hyperlinks email addresses

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff list because I started talking about my plans again] Hi Paul, At 2024-03-17T15:07:49-0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2024-03-17 12:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Can I ask how the existing system of measurement units in *roff is > > unsatisfactory for your application? > > Pr

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, An uncharacteristically brief response from me this time. ;-) At 2024-03-17T14:10:18-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, I think this narrows it down. The Perl 5.40 release is coming > up, and I'd like to get the next release of podlators into it, with > the hope that Debian will go to P

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > At 2024-03-16T12:32:44-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, I think we've sorted out the way forward for groff that would >> address the immediate issue. That leaves three questions: should I do >> something in the next release of Pod::Man, should I assume that the

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, At 2024-03-16T12:32:44-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, I think we've sorted out the way forward for groff that would > address the immediate issue. That leaves three questions: should I do > something in the next release of Pod::Man, should I assume that the > next release of groff wil

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-03-17T20:54:12+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Gah, I forgot to paste the paragraph. It's from groff_man(7). > > Ordinary paragraphs not within an .RS/.RE inset region are inset > by the amount stored in the BP register; see section “Options” > below. The IN

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:53:22PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > > >

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-17T20:31:55+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > $ man groff_man | grep ' \.\(IP\|RS\) \[' > .RS [inset‐amount] > .IP [tag [indentation]] > > S

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > $ man groff_man | grep ' \.\(IP\|RS\) \[' > .RS [inset‐amount] > .IP

Re: Use public inbox in groff [was: Remove redundant tests]

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[dropped Dave and bug-groff from Cc] Hi Alex & Andreas, At 2024-03-16T20:40:36+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 08:37:00PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Please contact overse...@sourceware.org. > > Branden, I guess it's you who'd need to ask them to do it. I'm not sur

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 02:24:29PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in groff mailing list to pitch a terminological reform] > > Hi Alex, Hi Banden, > At 2024-03-17T19:56:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > You already gained the first two spaces from the previous RS, in which > > y

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff mailing list to pitch a terminological reform] Hi Alex, At 2024-03-17T19:56:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > You already gained the first two spaces from the previous RS, in which > you're nested. Remember that we have > > .RS "\w' 'u" > .IP \(bu "\w'\(bu 'u" > > a few

Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-17T12:53:14-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Alexis wrote: > > Note that the documented use of psselect in > > contrib/momdoc—describing how to rearrange a table of contents > > generated at the end of a document when using the ps output > > device—is unchanged as I d

Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Alexis wrote: > Note that the documented use of psselect in contrib/momdoc—describing > how to rearrange a table of contents generated at the end of a document > when using the ps output device—is unchanged as I did not find a suitable > replacement. Switching to ps2ps impose

Re: Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread Alexis
Hello Branden, > I'm sorry I let this fall onto the floor. Picking it up... That's alright; thanks for picking it up again, much appreciated! > groff runs it unconditionally if the output device is "html" (or "xhtml"), > because the "html" device's "DESC" file tells it to. Ah, that's the piece