Re: [Groff] New tbl warnings in CVS version

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sunday 07 February 2010 01:46:42 am Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Of course! I would be really glad if there are helping hands since my > time is quite limited (and I'm a lazy person). Werner, if you're lazy, the rest of us might as well retire our shingles and sink back into the slough of entropy.

Re: [Groff] names in groff -- was: Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm thinking groff needs the concept of namespace . I don't think so. This concept is not very meaningful for something which gets interpreted at runtime. The only benefit would be that you can shorten the macro names slightly. However, groff still had to look up the real macro names, whic

Re: [Groff] Toward a convention for namespaces

2010-02-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] it means we really need only focus on namespaces for *support* > packages. Exactly. Additionally, we should ensure that `main' macro packages use a prefix (or a set of prefixes, if useful) for auxiliary stuff consistently. > Besides, retrofitting namespaces into primary packages may brea