Hi Branden,
> If you can persuade the pager to dump its output to a file without
> noticing that it's not a TTY
...
> I don't remember the trick I used.
script(1) would do that.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi,
Dave Kemper wrote:
> Luckily, "newsentence" is shorter.
In case they trigger other suggestions:
- want line end
- two sentences
- sentences
- trailing sentence
- trailing words
- trailing characters
- end-of-sentence noise
- EoS noise
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Alejandro,
> As hinted in recent mails to groff@ and linux-man@,
> I'm going to inaugurate a new [sub]section for constants.
This seems a bad idea. They're quite at home in section 3.
> I think it should contain constants, normally represented by
> object-like macros in C. But it should als
Hi Alejandro,
Wandering off-topic...
> $ find man* -type f \
>| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' \
>| sort \
>| uniq -d \
>| while read f; do
> find man* -type f \
> | grep -i $f;
>done;
> man2/_Exit.2
> man2/_exit.2
> man3/nan.3
> man3/NAN.3
You may like to know GNU's
Hi Branden,
Doug wrote:
> > Doing it for groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff
> > as quirky.
...
> And, as I shall never cease to remind people, the man(7) `PT` and `BT`
> traps are replaceable, thanks to the efforts of Larry Kollar around 20
> years ago.
Are you saying a man-pag
At 2022-07-23T11:51:04+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> > > Doing it for groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff
> > > as quirky.
> ...
> > And, as I shall never cease to remind people, the man(7) `PT` and
> > `BT` traps are replaceable, thanks to the efforts of Larry Kolla
At 2022-07-23T10:44:35+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > If you can persuade the pager to dump its output to a file without
> > noticing that it's not a TTY
> ...
> > I don't remember the trick I used.
>
> script(1) would do that.
That was probably it; while I was exposed to the command way back on
At 2022-07-23T11:51:04+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > And, as I shall never cease to remind people, the man(7) `PT` and
> > `BT` traps are replaceable, thanks to the efforts of Larry Kollar
> > around 20 years ago.
>
> Are you saying a man-page author should work around groff's increasing
> devia
On 7/22/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I disagree with this, because I find it awkward to put one complete
> sentence as a parenthetical inside another. I believe a sentence should
> remain grammatical even if the parentheses are removed.
As a middle-ground opinion from another punctuation tyr
At 2022-07-23T07:37:42-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 7/22/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I disagree with this, because I find it awkward to put one complete
> > sentence as a parenthetical inside another. I believe a sentence should
> > remain grammatical even if the parentheses are removed.
On Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:47:55 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I
> hope to hear back from Deri regarding my recent questions about URW font
> detection and foundry-management gymnastics.
Sorry, Branden, I must have missed the question. Please point me to it.
Cheers
Deri
On 7/23/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> That's _still_ too general a claim, but it
> will take me some time to find a way to articulate it well.
No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
here. We've resolved this tbl man-page issue (pending Alex's input,
but the pro
At 2022-07-23T09:58:54-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
> here. [...] Discussions on general style philosophies can wait till
> our next Punctuation Pedants meeting. (The flyer for it is being held
> up while a subcommittee debates w
At 2022-07-23T15:22:34+0100, Deri wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:47:55 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I hope to hear back from Deri regarding my recent questions about
> > URW font detection and foundry-management gymnastics.
>
> Sorry, Branden, I must have missed the question. Please
Hi Doug,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 07:48:21AM -0500:
> 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.
In addition to that,
Hi Alejandro,
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).
Othe
Hi Alex,
[Dropping linux-man from the CC list as I am sure some of the kernel
hackers there, if they bother to read my remarks below, will take
offense. As they should.
By the way, I was able to follow up with a screenshot of the tm.3type
page rendered as PostScript, but it was rejected from the
Just came across this, thought people here might appreciate it:
"Quality was not the only way in which groff surprised me: it has
serious speed too, especially in comparison to LaTeX ...
"In fact, many of the advantages of using groff are the same as
LaTeX, but with the added advantage of s
On Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:34:27 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Deri,
> At 2022-07-16T15:56:28+0100, Deri wrote:
> > My understanding is that the selection of paths to search is appended
> > to the value of the --with-urw-fonts-dir config variable (if any).
>
> Yes. To make it clear for m
At 2022-07-24T10:08:59+1000, Alexis wrote:
> Just came across this, thought people here might appreciate it:
>
> "Quality was not the only way in which groff surprised me: it has
> serious speed too, especially in comparison to LaTeX ...
>
> "In fact, many of the advantages of using groff are the
On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 08:07:22PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-24T10:08:59+1000, Alexis wrote:
> > Just came across this, thought people here might appreciate it:
> >
> > "Quality was not the only way in which groff surprised me: it has
> > serious speed too, especially in compa
At 2022-07-23T18:30:22-0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I was program committee chair for Linux Expo in 1999. Sounds like I was
> a big deal but what it really meant was I had to format the proceedings
> (I was not a big deal, just someone willing to do work). LaTex had
> won by then, but not in my min
On Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 10:08 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-23T18:30:22-0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Sadly, almost all of the papers were submitted in LaTex. I think the
> > reasons were
> > (b) troff was locked up and the docs were locked for a long time.
>
> I don't think the
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