Re: Problem in prepare.pl (PDF book script) when handling Unix V10 manual pages

2025-02-17 Thread Deri
On Monday, 17 February 2025 22:22:46 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [CCing groff@gnu list because some problems arise here that merit being > findable by search of its list archives] > > Hi Deri, > > At 2025-02-17T18:52:46+, Deri wrote: > > > programs in constructed pipeline: > > > >

Re: Problem in prepare.pl (PDF book script) when handling Unix V10 manual pages

2025-02-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[CCing groff@gnu list because some problems arise here that merit being findable by search of its list archives] Hi Deri, At 2025-02-17T18:52:46+, Deri wrote: > > programs in constructed pipeline: > > > > GNU grops (groff) version 1.23.0.2695-49927 > > GNU troff (groff) version

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-17 Thread onf
Hi Benno, On Mon Feb 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM CET, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Op 16-02-2025 om 16:55 schreef onf: > > Sounds like "modern" web browsers just break lines poorly. I have > > replicated what you are describing in Firefox 128.7.0esr. > > I've checked that Dillo (3.0.5) does the same. And

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
In short, I would consider this to be a bug in the respective browsers. Agreed.  A hyphen should only be considered a hyphenatable position when it has _alphabetical_ characters on both sides. Reported here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1948666 Benno OpenPGP_signature.asc Description:

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi onf, Op 16-02-2025 om 16:55 schreef onf: Sounds like "modern" web browsers just break lines poorly. I have replicated what you are describing in Firefox 128.7.0esr. I've checked that Dillo (3.0.5) does the same. And epiphany (42.4) too -- before it went into a tight spin and locked-up my

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi Branden, Op 16-02-2025 om 15:13 schreef G. Branden Robinson: Is there a way to mark such long options in the man page so that browsers are prevented from breaking the marked text in any way? Yes. It sounds like what you're looking for is the hyphenation control escape sequence, `\%`. I