Proposed: changes to soelim(1)

2024-07-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Dave and I have been discussing a change. I propose permitting soelim(1) to interpret spaces in a `so` argument as-is, and supporting `ds`-style leading double-quote removal (allowing file names that begin with spaces). Why? To align with a proposed syntax extension to `so` and other requests in

Behavior change: no more nonpositive page lengths

2024-07-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I ended up pretty tightly constrained with my work on checked arithmetic (itself a precursor to saturating arithmetic),[1] so I thought I should advise regarding a non-backward-compatible change I've pushed to HEAD. (Before anyone goes pale, this has nothing to do with a nonpositive _vertical draw

Re: [MOM[ unexpected behaviour when using blockquotes with two columns

2024-07-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-11-16T14:11:29-0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2023, hbeze...@kliksafe.nl wrote: > > 2. In groff_mom there's a link to the local html manual > > (/usr/share/doc/ groff-1.23.0/html/mom/toc.html), but most recent > > version of Groff on Arch Linux doesn't include the html pages

Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent

2024-07-25 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I will defend my formulation. `sp` _does_ position the > text baseline, period. I concur. It positions every part of the line. I simply did not want anyone to get the impression that ".sp |3c" would put the _baseline_ at 3 cm from the top. Also, in this case the baseline will only _normall

Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent

2024-07-25 Thread me . groff
Good morning Branden, On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:28:04 -0500 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > The subsection/node "Page Location Traps" discusses how to do this and > offers a simple example of the setup and use of header and footer traps. frankly I am usually hesitant to engage with traps, but you