Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Blake, > I always use the latest git version, and not any official release, > because it often contains corrections that are important to me. Congratulations, you're a "developer" and have to suffer all their tribulations. :-) A regular, nightly?, tarball produced from git with `make distche

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Bertrand, > However, groff's original build system inconditionally installs > GXditview and GXditview-color in /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults > (appresdir), no matter what prefix you put Bug! IMVHO, that is. > and I sticked to this behaviour. Seems an opportunity to fix it. Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Groff] [heirloom] getting dashes when a line is requested

2014-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Blake, > Carsten wrote: > > Have you tested that with PDF? If I magnify it I see a continous > > line. > > It looks broken into dashes on the PDF for me. Different PDF viewers show it differently IME. And zoom level matters too. Here with evince, A\(em\h'-\w'\(em'/2'\(emB A\(em\(e

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> - it prefers /usr/local/bin/gsed over /usr/bin/sed >>> >>> - it prefers /usr/local/bin/bison over /usr/bin/yacc >>> >>> Prefering the GNU versions over the native POSIX versions is bad >>> because it causes needless build dependencies. Mhmm. I don't find Ingo's arguments really convincing

Re: [Groff] [groff] 01/01: Refactor psbb line input function; avoid a buffer overrun.

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> keithmarshall pushed a commit to branch master > in repository groff. Thanks! > -??-?? Keith Marshall :-) Werner

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> However, groff's original build system inconditionally installs >> GXditview and GXditview-color in /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults >> (appresdir), no matter what prefix you put > > Bug! IMVHO, that is. No, it isn't. In the old build system, the very last messages of the `configure' script an

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I always use the latest git version, and not any official release, >> because it often contains corrections that are important to me. > > Congratulations, you're a "developer" and have to suffer all their > tribulations. :-) Yeah :-) > A regular, nightly?, tarball produced from git with `mak

Re: [Groff] [groff] 01/01: Refactor psbb line input function; avoid a buffer overrun.

2014-09-25 Thread Keith Marshall
On 25/09/14 10:51, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> keithmarshall pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository groff. > > Thanks! You're welcome. There's still more to do, of course. >> -??-?? Keith Marshall Yeah. I noticed this myself, but not until after I'd pushed. :( I used `h

Re: [Groff] [groff] 01/01: Refactor psbb line input function; avoid a buffer overrun.

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Can the commit message be edited safely in the shared repo? No. Don't worry, it's just a minor, unimportant glitch. Werner

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Werner, > Contrary to many other packages, a `/usr/local/X11' hierarchy normally > doesn't exist, and only the `/usr/X11' tree gets checked for > configuration files. Maybe this has changed recently, but I doubt it. Ah, I've seen them under /usr/local in the past. There's various environment

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Ah, I've seen them under /usr/local in the past. There's various > environment variables that can be set up to say where to look, e.g. > > $ XFILESEARCHPATH=/foo/%N:/bar/%N strace appres Werner 2>&1 \ > | grep Werner This is clever :-) > So if it's reasonable to assume a user knows

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-25 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:13:19AM +0200, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > Hm ... I see no obvious mistake in your commands, and could not > reproduce the problem. I have no idea of what's going on. Could you > please apply the attached patch to trace the error we have when > attempting to

Re: [Groff] [heirloom] getting dashes when a line is requested

2014-09-25 Thread Carsten Kunze
Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > It looks broken into dashes on the PDF for me. > > Different PDF viewers show it differently IME. And zoom level matters > too. Here with evince, > > A\(em\h'-\w'\(em'/2'\(emB > A\(em\(emB > > shows as darker on the overlap with the first line, and also very >

[Groff] Missing grog fix

2014-09-25 Thread Bernd Warken
I made an almost rewrite of `grog'. But I did not get a commit report for that. What's wrong? Bernd Warken

[Groff] Re Missing grog fix

2014-09-25 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Bernd Warken" > > I made an almost rewrite of `grog'. But I did not get a commit > report for that. What's wrong? Fine, I got the report. Bernd Warken

Re: [Groff] [groff] 01/01: grog: rewrite with new subs structure, and repair many details.

2014-09-25 Thread Keith Marshall
On 25/09/14 21:08, Bernd Warken wrote: > bwarken pushed a commit to branch master > in repository groff. > > ... > > + * this ChangeLog: Improve the breaking of Keith Marshall's entry > + from 2014-09-24. Why do you waste time on such futile idiosyncrasies? I can't get too worked up ove