Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 04:58:11PM -0500:
> I almost agree with Ingo. A blank line in tbl is generally equivalent to
> a table line in which all fields are empty. It is also generally equivalent
> to .sp 1.
I just noticed that they also differ in the presence of the "
I almost agree with Ingo. A blank line in tbl is generally equivalent to
a table line in which all fields are empty. It is also generally equivalent
to .sp 1. These interpretations differ in the presence of .blm or .ns.
By decorating every table line with an initial \&, tbl has picked the
former in
[lots of context preserved here; sorry for the deep quoting]
At 2020-01-23T04:33:27+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >> 1. In man/groff_char.7.man, the blank lines were inside tbl(1)
> >> code. In that context, the meaning of a blank line is well
> >> defined: it means a table row without any cells,
Hello Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 01:12:34PM +1100:
> At 2020-01-16T16:27:42+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> These are three very different cases.
>>
>> 1. In man/groff_char.7.man, the blank lines were inside tbl(1) code.
>>In that context, the meaning of a blank
At 2020-01-16T16:27:42+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> These are three very different cases.
>
> 1. In man/groff_char.7.man, the blank lines were inside tbl(1) code.
>In that context, the meaning of a blank line is well defined:
>it means a table row without any cells, i.e. an empty table row
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:07:38PM +:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> 3. In tmac/groff_trace.7.man, the blank lines you changed to .P
>>are inside .EX blocks. As far as i know, both blank lines
>>and .P work portably in .nf mode and hence in .EX blocks and
>>.Bd -un
Hi Ingo,
> 3. In tmac/groff_trace.7.man, the blank lines you changed to .P
>are inside .EX blocks. As far as i know, both blank lines
>and .P work portably in .nf mode and hence in .EX blocks and
>.Bd -unfilled and .Bd -literal.
They give very different results though. A blank line'
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:16:54AM -0500:
> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository groff.
>
> commit d603c514e393ce5ce7fa1d936caf098c5da7973c
> Author: G. Branden Robinson
> AuthorDate: Sun Sep 22 04:56:55 2019 +1000
>
> **/*.man: El
