At 2019-02-27T10:09:44+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Bjarni,
>
> On 2/16/19 7:03 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > Usage: .Rv -std in sections 2 and 3 only (#1672)
> >
> > The output from "nroff" and "groff" is unchanged
>
> Can you please elaborate on what the problem problem i
Hello Micheal, dear colleagues,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:48:50PM +1100:
> At 2019-02-27T10:09:44+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 2/16/19 7:03 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>>> Usage: .Rv -std in sections 2 and 3 only (#1672)
>>> The output from "nrof
Hello Branden,
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 10:48, G. Branden Robinson
wrote:
>
> At 2019-02-27T10:09:44+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Bjarni,
> >
> > On 2/16/19 7:03 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > > Usage: .Rv -std in sections 2 and 3 only (#1672)
> > >
> > > The output from "nrof
At 2019-02-27T13:37:46+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> So, summary: should I apply Bjarni's patch? Or does this lead to
> back-compatibility problems?
For maximum back-compatibility, you'd leave all of the string defines
(.ds requests) active and uncommented.
Zooming out a little bit,
Hello Ingo,
Thank you for your very detailed mail. I'll leave aside
the history of people's interactions, and cut to the chase
at the end of this mail...
[...]
> The two actual problems are both within the Linux man-pages project,
> not within groff:
>
> 1. While back in the early 1990ies, Cyn
> Or, as Ingo suggested, drop the page altogether.
Exactly.
Thanks,
Michael
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At 2019-02-27T13:34:29+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > as those are part of the interface of a macro package,
>
> I think this phrase invites a misunderstanding. With a library or
> macro package, the term "interface" is usually understood as "user
> interface" or "API", i.e. what application prog
Hi Michael,
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote on Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:28:19PM +0100:
> I am *not at all* attached to keeping to these pages. Their
> presence in the project has always felt a bit anomalous to me.
>
> Back when I took over maintainership in 2004, there were a small
> number of
