Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-05-14T15:15:12+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > So far, i did not find any place in groff's documentation explaining > that. In groff(7), the description of \c is very vague. While > > https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Line-Control.html > > is considerably more detailed,

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:37:08AM +0100: > Ingo wrote: >> Given that the man(7) .TP .itc hack got committed to groff > ... >> Of course, i still don't recommend actually using it, because that >> would make your manual page misrender on groff <= 1.22.3, on mandoc <

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Ingo wrote: > Given that the man(7) .TP .itc hack got committed to groff ... > Of course, i still don't recommend actually using it, because that > would make your manual page misrender on groff <= 1.22.3, on mandoc <= > 1.14.1, and on any version of anything else. This is sad news. It's an

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-05-02T18:34:50+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > But you are right that i should probably adjust the in-line macros > (that is, .B, .I, .SM, .SB) as well, even though for them, the > damage is minor, wrong font at the worst - and even that is unlikely > to happen in practice, because why would a

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:48:56AM -0400: > Note that the commits also affected the .SH, .SS, .B, .I, .SM, and .SB > macros as well. Basically it affected anything that set an input trap. True. What i committed to mandoc(1) so far only adjusts the block macros (th

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-05-02T01:57:54+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Purely FYI: > > Given that the man(7) .TP .itc hack got committed to groff, Some men just want to watch the world burn. ;-) > A few days ago, a patch from > got committed to groff which changed .TP from using .it to using .itc, > such that gr

Re: [Groff] Macro "itc" is needed to make escape "\c" useful

2017-05-01 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Purely FYI: Given that the man(7) .TP .itc hack got committed to groff, as promised, i adjusted mandoc(1), both in OpenBSD and in the portable version, to handle .TP heads with \c the same way. Of course, i still don't recommend actually using it, because that would make your manual page misrende