man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node? (was: ripgrep author seems happy with groff_man_style(7))

2025-01-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-22T07:10:54+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > i'll try to focus on the most pertinent, most technical points, > and only respond selectively to political arguments, mostly where > i fear that misperceptions might arise. And in this retitled thread I'll deal with the technical points. In ano

Re: ripgrep author seems happy with groff_man_style(7)

2025-01-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 12:27:36AM -0600: [...] > Possibly I'll formally propose an `SX` macro for man(7) at some point. You mean that like mdoc(7) .Tp, not like mdoc(7) .Sx, right? > It's not a high priority, nor in the near future because the automatic >

Re: ripgrep author seems happy with groff_man_style(7)

2025-01-22 Thread onf
Hi, On Wed Jan 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM CET, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > onf wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 11:13:57PM +0100: > > On Mon Jan 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM CET, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> [...] > >> Since this point keeps getting discussed, i'll briefly mention > >> that, when designing a markup languag

Re: ripgrep author seems happy with groff_man_style(7)

2025-01-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 11:59:41PM -0600: > We need a design for automatic construction of > tag/anchor names from the user-specified names of the items to be > tagged. In man(7) documents, those taggable items are probably going to > be: > > 1. the identi

Re: ripgrep author seems happy with groff_man_style(7)

2025-01-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hello, onf wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 11:13:57PM +0100: > On Mon Jan 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM CET, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> T. Kurt Bond wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:57:16PM -0500: >> > Branden said: As far as I know, none of pod2man(1), asciidoctor(1), docutils(1), or pandoc(1) suppo