"man -Tps nft.8" shows
:3754: error: boxed table does not fit on page 25; use .TS
H/.TH with a supporting macro package
with
environment MANROFFOPT=-ww and MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes
The package 'ms' explains:
.TS [H]
.TEDemarcate a table to be processed by the tbl preprocessor. Th
Hi Branden,
On Sat Jan 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2025-01-04T01:23:02+0100, onf wrote:
> [...]
> > Speaking of the left italic correction (\,), could you please give me
> > some example(s) where it's actually useful? I have yet to see a single
> > instance where it cha
Dave Kemper writes:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>> > So another thing to know here is that these italic correction escape
>> > sequences are, yet again, GNU troff extensions. A legacy formatter is
>> > likely to render them as if the
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> > So another thing to know here is that these italic correction escape
> > sequences are, yet again, GNU troff extensions. A legacy formatter is
> > likely to render them as if the backslash were absent, which
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>> Also note that if a change involving italic happens between two
>> non-whitespace characters, like so:
>> groff(/7/)
>>
>> ...an italic correction should be emitted to prevent the two glyphs
>> colliding into each other:
>> groff(\,\fI7\fR\/)
>> where:
>> \
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>> ...
>> (4) will produce a man file named after the .org file, in the same
>> directory.
>
> Thank you very much. I'll test out my proposed changes locally.
Note that the official Org mode repository is on savannah.
See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.ht
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>> Then maybe we can put .sp explicitly instead of a blank line.
>
> I advise against it. If what follows is a paragraph or a (sub)section
> heading, then by calling the applicable macro, you will get any
> necessary vertical space automatically.
>
> Also, on typese
