Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread John Gardner
Hi Branden, All of the terminal output devices groff supports lack overstriking support. Whoops. I forgot that what I was seeing in less(1) was actually duped using an underline effect. On that note, am I right to assume that \fI+\fP0 is equally implausible by virtue of terminals diverging wildl

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, John Gardner wrote: So ideally, the fallback for "?0" should be "+0 or -0", which is much more readable and less ambiguous than "+-0" or "+/-0". For approximating ? in ASCII, is there some reason \z_+0 hasn't been considered? I had forgotten that approach. The problem o

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi John, At 2024-08-09T15:53:30+1000, John Gardner wrote: > Hi Vincent, Not to horn in, but I think I'm better situated to venture opinions or background on implementation decisions taken in groff than Vincent is. > So ideally, the fallback for "±0" should be "+0 or -0", which is > > much more r

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread John Gardner
Hi Vincent, So ideally, the fallback for "±0" should be "+0 or -0", which is > much more readable and less ambiguous than "+-0" or "+/-0". For approximating ± in ASCII, is there some reason \z_+0 hasn't been considered? I'm asking earnestly, as I'm primed to assume overstriking hacks have alrea

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread Dave Kemper
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:59 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > FYI, +-0 could be interpreted by the reader as in C, where a unary > minus operator is applied, then a unary plus operator. And about +/-0, > the "/" is already used a the division operator, so that this doesn't > help parsing. It helps *som

Re: magazine style end marks

2024-08-08 Thread lkh
Yay, beautiful solution and just what I was looking for! Thank you so much! lkh

Re: magazine style end marks

2024-08-08 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> For a small fanzine project I want to typeset magazine > style end marks [1]. Particularly I want to include the > authors handle or name in the end mark, like seen for > instance in some articles like in this issue of the > Space Gamer Magazine [2]. How about this (see attachment)? It prints

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-08-08 07:16:03 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-08-08T10:07:35+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hmmm, I see. Thanks! I think "If x is ±0" is the clearest way to say > > it. I'm not sure if that glyph is available everywhere, though. How > > about "If x is 0 or -0"? > > I t

Re: [PATCH] nextup.3: minor improvements

2024-08-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff@gnu] At 2024-08-08T10:07:35+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 04:56:36AM GMT, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2024-08-07 23:19:56 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > Hi Vincent, > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 12:56:17PM GMT, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >

Savannah groff project Item Group and Severity definitions

2024-08-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, It's been quite a while since I shared these, and as far as I know they're still inaccessible to non-administrator users even for reading, which is a shame. I imagine they could be useful to bug submitters, and my fellow groff hackers who lack groff group admin privileges. I have made