On 7/22/22 04:14, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At least, _Exit(2) and _exit(2) point to the same page. nan(3) and
NAN(3) don't, though!
Pretty gross. A useful counterexample of good practice, though.
We can't blame the writers, since the identifiers have those names in
C. Luckily, man(1)
Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
futile an effort as English spelling reform. Doing it for
groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff as quirky.
At least the current convention has the virtue of simplicity. A
convention of matching the case of comma
Hi,
On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your comment
that other languages may find it difficult to mirror our use of
subsections, since their main section is already a subsection (e.g.,
3pl). I'd say that since C i
Hi Doug,
At 2022-07-22T07:36:03-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
> futile an effort as English spelling reform.
I love a challenge.
> Doing it for groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff as
> quirky.
True, but on
Hi,
Colin Watson wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 01:22:57AM +0100:
> man-db doesn't index on the .TH section at all, and I don't believe
> I've encountered the practice of doing so in other indexers
> (I could be wrong, but I think that's something I would have
> remembered if I'd noticed it).
FWI
Reported-by: "G. Branden Robinson"
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar
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Hi all!
As hinted in recent mails to groff@ and linux-man@,
I'm going to inaugurate a new [sub]section for constants.
I think it should contain constants, normally represented by
object-like macros in C. But it should als
Hi Branden, Doug,
On 7/22/22 14:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Doug,
At 2022-07-22T07:36:03-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
futile an effort as English spelling reform.
I love a challenge.
Doing it for groff-related man
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T13:46:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your
> > comment that other languages may find it difficult to mirror our use
> > of subsections, since their main
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/22/22 14:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > intro(x) pages are sorely neglected these days, a sad situation.
> >
> > A couple of years ago someone on this list proposed a revised
> > intro(1), which people on this list found to
The root problem seems to be that troff is sort of wishy-washy about
the distinction between underlining and italics, regarding one as a
fallback for the other rather than the two as distinct operations.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57462 seeks to address this, though no
one has yet volunteered to
Hi Branden,
On 7/22/22 23:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Also, now that we speak about these things... I've always wondered
what happened to learn(1). It's a program mentioned[1] in UNIX for
Beginners [2nd ed.; K.], that doesn't seem to ex
Hi Branden,
On 7/22/22 21:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T13:46:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your
comment that other languages may find it difficult to
[dropped наб from CC list; added groff@]
At 2022-07-22T12:57:53+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> You answered all that I thought you would, and even more. As always,
> you surprise me with great knowledge that I didn't even know I could
> ask for, and that's the main reason I tend to
Hi Branden,
I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Within:
[
Region options
The line immediately following the .TS token may specify
region options: keywords that influence the interpreta‐
tion or rendering of the region as a whole or all t
On 7/17/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm having trouble thinking of single other example that needs
> to operate at the level of the formatter as this one does.
Hmm... does the USER care what level it's operating at? Should the
user interface for this low-level diagnostic look basically like
Hi Branden,
On 7/23/22 00:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[dropped наб from CC list; added groff@]
At 2022-07-22T12:57:53+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
You answered all that I thought you would, and even more. As always,
you surprise me with great knowledge that I didn't even know
That tarball is not how it should be done, it unpacks in . Should
unpack in learn/
Just a FYI.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:43:37PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> On 7/22/22 23:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> >At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> >>Also, now
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-23T01:47:40+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/23/22 00:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > No indeed. My Logitech thumb-operated trackball hates me, as does
> > the company--they don't even sell a corded version anymore. Due to
> > some diabolical collusion with the alkali
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-23T01:08:18+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Thank you; I appreciate the review. Yours is the first it's gotten
since I rewrote it.
> [
>spaces, or tabs. (AT&T tbl accepted only options with
>
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