Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2022, 21:33:07 CEST schrieb Alejandro Colomar:
> Hi Branden,
>
> I've already read all that was relevant to me from tbl(1) regarding what
> I had in mind: documenting structures.
>
> I haven't seen any mention to tables having a leading blank line, yet I
> couldn't get rid
Peter Schaffter writes:
Thanks for the doc fixes for mom. I've been meaning to get out
the
broom and clean them up. This is a great help.
Ah good! You're welcome. :-)
Alexis.
On 7/29/22 10:13, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:> Hi Alex,
did you look at the dformat preprocessor for pic?
Hi Heinz,
I think tbl(1) is more suited for this.
https://noxz.tech/guides/groff/papers/dformat_--_a_program_for_typesetting_data_formats__142.pdf
But thanks for that. I didn't know a
Hi Ingo and Branden,
On 7/27/22 18:05, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
[...]
Under this umbrella, the Linux kernel is effectively under the BSD
license.
Except that free software projects cannot copy from it - that's
quite a big BUT since allowing *everybody* to copy the code for
any purpose is the cent
Hi Ingo,
On 7/27/22 17:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 06:17:40PM +0200:
On 7/24/22 16:57, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
I even considered supporting aliases for manpath directories
in man.conf(5), something like being able to say
alias tcl
At 2022-07-27T07:41:05+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > +.TS
> > +l lB lB l1 lX.
Alex, I think your contributors will be happier if you limit the number
of table columns to the number of syntactical items that they can
perceive in the structure body: the data type, element identifier, and
(an optio
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 02:03:51PM +0200:
> BTW, I guess you also have the POSIX man pages in BSDs. Do they come
> from the kernel repo that I maintain, or do you have your own separate
> repos?
$ less /usr/ports/books/man-pages-posix/Makefile
[...]
C
On 7/29/22 15:22, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
What are your thoughts?
Yes, even though /usr/local/share/doc/pkgname/man/man* is a bit long,
it makes more sense than paths like
/usr/local/cyrus/man/
/usr/local/heirloom-doctools/man/
/usr/local/lib/erlang21/man/
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-27T14:23:44+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Yeah, it seems that everything that I used was well documented (I
> could find the way to use it). I didn't notice any other issues.
>
> Of course, there are things that I didn't pay much attention and
> didn't fully un
Hi Branden,
On 7/29/22 15:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Oh, I used text blocks and .BR, in v2. In part, I like it; in part I
hate it.
So, text blocks are definitely better.
I'm not convinced about changing the escapes by macros; it makes it
quite hard for inexperienced contributors to imagin
Hi Alex!
At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/29/22 15:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I don't think you're abusing it but you are employing some heavy
> > machinery that brings some limitations with it. The worst from my
> > perspective is that using tbl(1) in man page
Hi Branden,
On 7/29/22 23:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex!
At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 7/29/22 15:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I don't think you're abusing it but you are employing some heavy
machinery that brings some limitations with it. The worst from
Format structures with tbl(1) to improve alignment in
proportional-width font text.
Reported-by: "G. Branden Robinson"
Cc: Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Cc: Ralph Corderoy
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar
---
man2type/open_how.2type | 25 +
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 de
Format structures with tbl(1) to improve alignment in
proportional-width font text.
I also reordered the types in the SYNOPSIS, to be consistent with
C syntax.
Reported-by: "G. Branden Robinson"
Cc: Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Cc: Ralph Corderoy
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar
---
This page clearly
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-30T00:38:13+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/29/22 23:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hmm, considering that the amount of multiline comments with 80-char
> terminals is still non-negligible (not in this page, but
Hi Branden,
On 7/30/22 01:56, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-30T00:38:13+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 7/29/22 23:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2022-07-29T17:26:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hmm, considering that the amount of multiline comments with 80-char
ter
[replying just to Alex and the lists]
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-30T01:01:09+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Format structures with tbl(1) to improve alignment in
> proportional-width font text.
>
> I also reordered the types in the SYNOPSIS, to be consistent with
> C syntax.
>
> Reported-by: "G. Bra
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-30T02:04:39+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/30/22 01:56, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > It'll be good to have a look.
>
> Oh, it's already in your mailbox, isn't it?
I think I just responded to it. :)
> But reallistically, how many people will fix their TS in man.loca
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