Re: Plan 9 man added a new macro for man page references

Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:58:31AM +1000: > (Did I digress some?) To digress even more: combining the enigmatic character of TeX error reporting with the verbosity of C++ error reporting would get you to the Mariana Trench of usability. > At any rate, I don

Re: [groff] 20/31: [nroff]: Improve portability.

Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 02:39:49AM -0400: > commit 8ca88a9c72b59da7e8757b8f6012aef5947ef144 > Author: G. Branden Robinson > AuthorDate: Sat Jul 24 12:17:32 2021 +1000 > > [nroff]: Improve portability. > > * src/roff/nroff/nroff.sh: Use Version

What's a vee? (was: mm(7) DT string and super/subscripts)

Hi, Nate! At 2021-08-09T14:38:20-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I see the groff.7.man file in Git HEAD now states: > >\u Move upward ½ vee (½ line in nroff). > > May I ask what a 'vee' is as I don't see it defined in that page. > > Is it related to this: > > v V

Re: nesting lists in man(7) pages

Hi Ingo, At 2021-08-11T14:37:58+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 01:16:45AM +1000: > > but I reckon I should actually step up and try to improve one of the > > generator tools, like pod2man > > That would be a noble deed because pod2man(1) is a very u

Re: mm(7) DT string and super/subscripts (was: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros")

Hi, Dave! At 2021-08-11T20:30:07-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 8/9/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > \v'-.5'\s-4\&2\s0\v'.5' > > > > The use of \&, unnecessary here as far as I know, suggests to me that > > someone got burned by the magic syntax of the \s escape sequence. > > The \& is

groff's C++ dialect (was: Plan 9 man added a new macro for man page references)

[Alex, this starting to meander afield from man page issues] At 2021-08-13T14:30:42+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:58:31AM +1000: > > > (Did I digress some?) > > To digress even more: combining the enigmatic character of TeX err

Re: [groff] 20/31: [nroff]: Improve portability.

Hi Ingo, At 2021-08-13T15:19:02+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 02:39:49AM -0400: > > > commit 8ca88a9c72b59da7e8757b8f6012aef5947ef144 > > Author: G. Branden Robinson > > AuthorDate: Sat Jul 24 12:17:32 2021 +1000 > > > > [nro

Re: nesting lists in man(7) pages

Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 12:53:31AM +1000: > So, you're right, what we really need here are begin- and end-list tags. > > The instant problem comes from IP, like all paragraph tags, being "spot" > markup rather than "block" markup. (There are probably more c

Re: PROBLEM/FIX: groff 1.22.4 and earlier won't render post-1.23 mdoc man page headers and footers

Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 07:34:29AM +1000: > The mdoc macros of groff 1.22.4 and earlier won't render the page > headers and footers ("titles") of groff 1.23.0's groff_mdoc(7) page. > Nor will they of any mdoc(7) page that adopts mixed-case section titles. >