Hi Russ,
[finally getting back to this]
At 2022-11-28T08:45:34-0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson via tz" writes:
>
> > Most people won't see a difference because groff 1.22.4 (and earlier
> > releases going back to, I think, 2009) the man(7) macro package
> > remaps the hyphen to
Narrowing this down to the groff list since it doesn't really apply to the
other lists, but please cc me on replies since I'm not subscribed.
"G. Branden Robinson via tz" writes:
> Most people won't see a difference because groff 1.22.4 (and earlier
> releases going back to, I think, 2009) the m
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> For what it's worth, groff and Heirloom doctools nroff don't print
> "something else" in bold (this is true even in Heirloom's default, _not_
> groff compatibility, mode), and DWB 3.3 nroff does.
Oh, incidentally, I ran into what felt to me like a bug in groff tha
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> It's my lucky day! I've been meaning to buttonhole you for quite some
> time regarding my man(7) reforms and pod2man's output.
I just made another major release, so on the plus side my brain is fully
up to speed with the source, but on the minus side, I'm also a
[dropping everyone but Russ and the groff list]
Hi Russ,
It's my lucky day! I've been meaning to buttonhole you for quite some
time regarding my man(7) reforms and pod2man's output.
I had notions of trying to get you into a sort of informal summit
meeting at DebConf 20 but a lot of people got s
At 2022-11-25T19:50:14-0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2022-11-25 19:20, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > You have to be very careful with the combination of \f(CW and \fP on
> > Solaris 10 nroff
>
> That should be OK, as \f(CW - which is now \f(CR - is used only if
> \n(.g is nonzero, i.e., only if it's gro
Paul Eggert via tz writes:
> Thanks for the info about groff. You're right, tzdb man pages are supposed
> to be portable to both groff and traditional troff. For the latter I test
> with /usr/bin/nroff and /usr/bin/troff on Solaris 10, which is the oldest
> troff I know that is still supported.
On 2022-11-25 19:20, Russ Allbery wrote:
You have to be very careful with the combination of \f(CW and \fP on
Solaris 10 nroff
That should be OK, as \f(CW - which is now \f(CR - is used only if \n(.g
is nonzero, i.e., only if it's groff and not traditional troff.
I toyed with using \f[CW] in
