>> > 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to
>> >5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac
>> >OS X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make
>> >generated *.info files part of the distribution archive and
>> >thereby red
Hi, Werner!
At 2021-10-27T07:36:13+, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to
> >5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac OS
> >X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make
> >generated *.info file
On Friday, 29 October 2021 21:24:45 BST T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> > The pdf I sent to the list yesterday [
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html ] Is
> produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.
>
> Wonderful! Someone *was* suitably inspired to implement
> The pdf I sent to the list yesterday [
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html ] Is
produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.
Wonderful! Someone *was* suitably inspired to implement multiple indexes!
Would it be possible to get references to the start of
On Friday, 29 October 2021 19:38:42 BST T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> [I hit "reply" on my previous attempt at this email, so it went only to
> Ralph. Sorry about that. At least this version has the correct CSTR #.]
> I'm an emacs user, and I use the info version of the groff texinfo manual,
> as well as
[I hit "reply" on my previous attempt at this email, so it went only to
Ralph. Sorry about that. At least this version has the correct CSTR #.]
I'm an emacs user, and I use the info version of the groff texinfo manual,
as well as the manual pages, and usually go to the trouble of getting the
PDF
Hi John,
> I was thinking of ms(7) more than manual pages, actually.
> Think single-page HTML output.
Based on the transcription this list did of Tim O'Reilly's ‘Unix Text
Processing’ — now only available second hand, https://amzn.to/3bkamGb —
perhaps an shared effort to switch would work for the
Hi John,
> In lieu of escaped newlines and awkward sed(1) formatting, you can use
> the following line to insert an empty line:
>
> /^Before$/ { N; s/\n/&&/; }
With the caveat that the line read by N won't be processed as it would
have been otherwise. These two show the difference which might no
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 05:19:00AM +1100, John Gardner wrote:
> I was thinking of ms(7) more than manual pages, actually. Think single-page
> HTML output.
-ms lends itself to parsing nicely. I wrote something called webroff
(in perl) that took ms input and spit out a website. In the early
days o
>
> https://mandoc.bsd.lv/texi2mdoc/
I was thinking of ms(7) more than manual pages, actually. Think single-page
HTML output.
mdoc(7) is too restrictive and specialised to lend itself well to the
various applications Texinfo manuals are used for.
(Anyway, I was just spitballing. I want an excus
Hi John,
John Gardner wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 04:27:50AM +1100:
> Even better: a preprocessor to convert Texinfo markup to Roff source
> (possibly targeting a macro package). I've said it before, and I'll said it
> again: Groff needs TeX about as badly as it needs an Instagram page.
>
> te
In lieu of escaped newlines and awkward sed(1) formatting, you can use the
following line to insert an empty line:
/^Before$/ { N; s/\n/&&/; }
Note that BSD sed(1) is picky about braces and semicolons.
I have groff building successfully on Mac OS X now.
>
I recently upgraded to macOS 12.0.1 (M
> 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to
>5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac OS
>X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make
>generated *.info files part of the distribution archive and
>thereby reduce the depende
Hi, Andreas!
At 2021-10-27T00:07:22+0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> Actually, that only makes it work with OpenBSD sed and GNU sed. It
> still fails with
>
> sed: Unrecognized command: .lf 1 doc/webpage.ms
>
> when using Plan 9 sed. Not tested with macOS.
>
> So it looks like
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