At 2023-07-30T09:35:28+1000, John Gardner wrote:
[I wrote:]
> > I wonder why mandoc didn't just call its roff(7) page mandoc(7), given
> > that it parallels groff(7) more than anything else.
>
> Strictly speaking, Groff is at fault here; the manual page dedicated
> to the Roff language proper shou
>
> I wonder why mandoc didn't just call its roff(7) page mandoc(7), given
> that it parallels groff(7) more than anything else.
>
Strictly speaking, Groff is at fault here; the manual page dedicated to the
Roff language proper should have been named as such, whereas groff(1)
pertains to an execut
>
> Eh? That's precisely what it is. It covers matters that are (more or
> less) common to all roff implementations. Have you looked at it?
Sorry, my wires got crossed. I completely misread this discussion…
I'll see myself out.
On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 09:42, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.
Branden,
I forgot to add that your diagnosis seems to explain everything. I had
not noticed groff-perl among the zillion things on offer at Cygwin.
Being no fan of Perl, I may continue to rely on ps2pdf.
Doug
Hi Doug,
At 2023-07-29T15:16:42-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Cygwin did exclude gropdf and pdfgroff. "The accompanying man page"
> that I meant was groff.1. Perhaps that man page should say that not
> all groff distributions support pdf.
Okay. I want to keep groff(1)'s comprehensive list of ma
Cygwin did exclude gropdf and pdfgroff. "The accompanying man page"
that I meant was groff.1. Perhaps that man page should say that not
all groff distributions support pdf.
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 1:35 PM G. Branden Robinson
wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> At 2023-07-29T13:00:13-0400, Douglas McIlroy wro
Hi Doug,
At 2023-07-29T13:00:13-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> 1.22.4, which I got via Cygwin, lacks -Tpdf, although the accompanying
> man page describes it. Is it perhaps an installation option that
> Cygwin didn't set?
More or less. gropdf has some prerequisites, and if they aren't met,
grop
1.22.4, which I got via Cygwin, lacks -Tpdf, although the accompanying
man page describes it. Is it perhaps an installation option that
Cygwin didn't set?
Doug
