Re: spaces in file names and before comments

2025-02-22 Thread onf
By the way, On Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-22T23:23:35+0100, onf wrote: > > If that's an accurate characterization, then please explain what that > > NEWS file is about, because I don't get it. > > Again your references are too broad and too general.

Re: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat

2025-02-22 Thread onf
Hi Dave, On Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM CET, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM onf wrote: > > The combination of points 1, 5, and 5b seems to imply that > > .nx nx \" load file nx > > > > will be interpretted as loading file 'nx ' (without the quotes). > > Correct. I opened

Re: spaces in file names and before comments

2025-02-22 Thread onf
Dear Branden, On Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [...] > > It doesn't, because there is not a single line containing a comment > > separated from the argument by a space. Read the examples I gave > > above. > > I understand now. You are bewailing the removal of supp

Re: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat

2025-02-22 Thread Dave Kemper
On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM onf wrote: > The combination of points 1, 5, and 5b seems to imply that > .nx nx \" load file nx > > will be interpretted as loading file 'nx ' (without the quotes). Correct. I opened http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66673 in response to this observation about the

spaces in file names and before comments (was: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat)

2025-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[giving this sub-thread a more appropriate title] At 2025-02-22T23:23:35+0100, onf wrote: > [re-arranging] > > On Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2025-02-22T16:38:00+0100, onf wrote: > > [...] > > > I feel like changing ab, hpf, hpfa, nx, so, and tm (the others

Re: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat

2025-02-22 Thread onf
Hi Branden, [re-arranging] On Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-22T16:38:00+0100, onf wrote: > [...] > > I feel like changing ab, hpf, hpfa, nx, so, and tm (the others aren't > > implemented by neatroff) to allow spaces in the middle of their > > arguments m

Re: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat

2025-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-22T16:38:00+0100, onf wrote: > I forgot to emphasize the likely largest obstacle, which is the fact > that it (presumably Savannah #66625, and/or changes already in Git) > would break compatibility with documents written for neatroff. In what way? > Ali seems averse to breaking backw

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

2025-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-reply; Benno not CCed] At 2025-02-22T02:40:32-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Benno, > > I have some partial good news. [...] > I'm attaching HTML renderings with groff 1.23.0 and the bleeding edge. For once I _didn't_ forget the attachments; I checked my Sent folder and they're pres

Re: double quotes in file names: another groff 1.24.0 caveat

2025-02-22 Thread onf
On Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM CET, onf wrote: > On Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > if I follow through on Savannah #66625, > > I mean to preserve traditional AT&T troff behavior of `tm` and `ab` in > > compatibility mode, mainly because I can imagine people using `t

Re: Interpolation and formatting

2025-02-22 Thread Francesco Ariis
Il 21 febbraio 2025 alle 16:41 G. Branden Robinson ha scritto: > Hi Francesco, > > At 2025-02-21T16:19:25+0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > can I format/scale numbers when interpolating them? > > Not without arithmetic, as far as I know. Thanks, my mind is at peace now that I know for sure!

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

2025-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Benno, I have some partial good news. At 2025-02-17T11:52:27+0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > 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? > > >