[groff] GNU troff version 1.22.4

2018-12-23 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi, After a last commit (copyright year displayed on 'groff --version'), I've created tag 1.22.4 and pushed the official package on GNU ftp. Below is the annoucement done on the GNU info mailing list. I just need to make a few update on the groff website. Many thanks to everyone who contributed,

Re: [groff] GNU troff version 1.22.4

2018-12-23 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > After a last commit (copyright year displayed on 'groff --version'), > I've created tag 1.22.4 and pushed the official package on GNU ftp. > Below is the annoucement done on the GNU info mailing list. > > I just need to make a few update on the gro

Re: [groff] GNU troff version 1.22.4

2018-12-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-12-23T16:20:38+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Hi, > > After a last commit (copyright year displayed on 'groff --version'), > I've created tag 1.22.4 and pushed the official package on GNU ftp. > Below is the annoucement done on the GNU info mailing list. Great news! I am little surpri

Re: [groff] GNU troff version 1.22.4

2018-12-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I just need to make a few update on the groff website. >> >> Many thanks to everyone who contributed, tested and reported bugs. > > Congratulations are in order. I can't recall the last time there > was so much activity prior to a release. I add my voice to > Bertrand's thanks. Yeah, good

Re: [groff] 03/04: doc/groff.texi: Drop most "man" documentation.

2018-12-23 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, i don't feel very strongly about what exactly is said in the texinfo manual, but i thought a brief comment might make sense anyway. G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:33:39PM -0500: > +The @code{man} macro package is the most widely-used That is probably true. > +

Re: [groff] 03/04: doc/groff.texi: Drop most "man" documentation.

2018-12-23 Thread John Gardner
> mdoc(7) applied the concept of semantic markup and of separation > of content and presentation at about the same time as HTML was > developed, whereas the basic concepts of man(7) are still stuck > in a paradigm of markup that faded away in the 1980ies And yet, mdoc(7) is fundamentally useless f

Re: [groff] 03/04: doc/groff.texi: Drop most "man" documentation.

2018-12-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-12-23T23:51:21+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > > i don't feel very strongly about what exactly is said in the texinfo > manual, but i thought a brief comment might make sense anyway. I want to emphasize that the wording you're critiquing is not my own invention. Here's the dif