Re: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007)

2024-10-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Leah, At 2024-10-07T16:50:48+0200, Leah Neukirchen wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > Anton Shepelev wrote a summary I find admirably concise and blunt: > > > > "`grotty' is not an appendix to a pager, but a program for printing > > direct to the terminal. Most terminals support those

Re: groff_man.7.man.in: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page

2024-10-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Bjarni, At 2024-10-07T23:00:59+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: groff > Version: upstream, GIT HEAD > Severity: minor > Tags: patch If this were a Savannah ticket I would close it as "Invalid" immediately. "Unreproducible" also applies. >* What led up to the situation? > >

Re: an.tmac: macro pair 'TS H / TH' is missing for long tables with vertical lines (boxed)

2024-10-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-10-07T23:33:08+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Rendering the man page "nft.8" (package "nftables") with "groff" shows: > > nft.8:3769: error: boxed table does not fit on page 29; use .TS H/.TH with a > supporting macro package > nft.8:4127: error: boxed table does not fit on page 30;

an.tmac: macro pair 'TS H / TH' is missing for long tables with vertical lines (boxed)

2024-10-07 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Rendering the man page "nft.8" (package "nftables") with "groff" shows: nft.8:3769: error: boxed table does not fit on page 29; use .TS H/.TH with a supporting macro package nft.8:4127: error: boxed table does not fit on page 30; use .TS H/.TH with a supporting macro package troff:nft.8:4305: wa

groff_man.7.man.in: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page

2024-10-07 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Package: groff Version: upstream, GIT HEAD Severity: minor Tags: patch * What led up to the situation? Checking for defects with [test-][g|n]roff -mandoc -t -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -ww -b -z < "man page" [test-groff is a script in the repository for "groff"] (local copy and "troff" slight

Re: Nesting macros interpolated as strings

2024-10-07 Thread onf
On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 7:17 PM CEST, onf wrote: > [...] > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [...] > > Unless...hmm. Unless maybe the problem that this trick of punning a > > macro to a string won't work when quotation marks surround the macro > > interpolation, beca

Re: Nesting macros interpolated as strings

2024-10-07 Thread onf
Hi Branden, thank you for taking the time to look into this. On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [...] > At 2024-10-05T23:32:33+0200, onf wrote: > > sit \*[1 A "\\*[2 "B*[3 C D]E" F]G" H] amet. > > > > Once I change it to be an actual macro, though, it reports

Re: blank pages in UTP document (was: Regressions in UTP document)

2024-10-07 Thread Dave Kemper
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Putting the 1.23.0 and Git renderings side by side, leaping to the end > and scrolling backwards, it takes a while to find discrepancies. "diff <(groff-1.23 -a utp.mac) <(groff-HEAD -a utp.mac)" is pretty fast. Since -a output indicates

Re: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007)

2024-10-07 Thread Leah Neukirchen
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > Anton Shepelev wrote a summary I find admirably concise and blunt: > > "`grotty' is not an appendix to a pager, but a program for printing > direct to the terminal. Most terminals support those basic ANSI > control sequences, and many console programs freely use t

Re: Nesting macros interpolated as strings

2024-10-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi onf, At 2024-10-05T23:32:33+0200, onf wrote: > Here is a short example of the sort of thing I am trying to get > to work: [...] > sit \*[1 A "\\*[2 "B*[3 C D]E" F]G" H] amet. > > Once I change it to be an actual macro, though, it reports this: > troff: backtrace: 'FILE.tr':17: macro '1

Administrivia: do you want to be copied on new Savannah tickets?

2024-10-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
The bug-groff at gnu list gets copied on all new tickets filed against groff on Savannah, but you can be too, if you like. Over the past few months I have been using Savannah's bug/email integration feature with increasing satisfaction. It reminds me of the Debian BTS (of which I was once a highl