Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-15 Thread Larry Kollar
> Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >> I’m typesetting entire books out of Markdown (specifically, > >> MultiMarkdown). > > And that's the problem. Markdown is ill specified, poorly thought out, > and in consequence there are many dialects of Markdown. I always find it amusing when someone on a *roff

[groff] I hate git-version-gen

2018-03-15 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, git-version-gen is a very serious nuisance. It efficiently prevents any kind of reliable testing. It creates totally ridiculous version strings like "1.22.3.rc1.40-1327" which then get scattered all over the place, up to and including absurd directory names like .../share/groff/1.22.3.rc1

Re: [groff] More on stripping

2018-03-15 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, Peter Schaffter wrote on Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 07:36:36PM -0400: > If om.tmac-u is removed from the sources and replaced > with om.tmac (unstripped), the attached patch should give us > what we want. After a fierce fight resulting in the death of the vicious git-version-gen dragon, i fi

Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Larry, > Let’s see… we have -man, -mdoc, -mm, -me, -mom That are all distinct things, named differently, with different macros. No one takes their -mm source and expects it to run with -mom. That's like saying Asciidoc source should work with Markdown programs. > 1) Most of the dialects are

Re: [groff] I hate git-version-gen

2018-03-15 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Thu, Mar 15 2018 at 08:34:00 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > git-version-gen is a very serious nuisance. It efficiently prevents > any kind of reliable testing. It creates totally ridiculous version > strings like "1.22.3.rc1.40-1327" which then get scattered all over > the place