Hi Branden,
On 8/17/22 07:34, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
One difference to keep in mind is that Debian's groff is patched to
recognize a "GROFF_SGR" environment variable, and disables SGR output
from grotty(1) by default. So perhaps you could see if you can
reproduce it in Debian stable using i
G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [CCing Bob Proulx]
>
> This message just is not showing up on the savannah-hackers-public list
> (after two attempts 6 hours apart), so maybe there is more than one
> email problem going on.
I see one of the messages in the archive okay.
https://lists.gnu.org/ar
On 8/17/22, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I am thinking that your message was simply held for new sender
> moderation.
Hi Bob,
In the past couple days I've made several updates to groff Savannah
tickets, which have always generated an immediate email to me and, not
too long after, one in the lists.gnu.org
Hi Alex,
At 2022-08-17T09:52:27+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 8/17/22 07:34, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > One difference to keep in mind is that Debian's groff is patched to
> > recognize a "GROFF_SGR" environment variable, and disables SGR
> > output from grotty(1) by default. So perhaps
On 8/17/22 13:01, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
That I don't have enough information yet.
Render the page directly with groff.
(export GROFF_SGR=1; zcat $(man -w membarrier) | groff -Tutf8 -man > grotty.out)
I guess you don't mind that I use groff 1.23.0 since both seem to behave
the same. It'
Hi Branden,
On 8/17/22 13:01, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
$ GROFF_SGR=1 man membarrier
with Debian's groff 1.22.4 triggers the bug in Sid, but not in stable.
What does this tell you?
That I don't have enough information yet.
Render the page directly with groff.
(export GROFF_SGR=1; zcat $(ma
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:27 AM EDT, Jeff Conrad wrote:
> Oops ...
>
> Scratch what I was going to suggest ...
>
> I only asked because you mentioned that roff2text(1) does a poor job of
> formatting. Reading more carefully, formatting wasn’t your objective.
I suppose I could have been clearer the
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, DJ Chase wrote:
It works for style, but it?s really a problem with diction. Diction
outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don?t
corrispond to the source line-numbers.
I have never refered to the line number in over 30 years of using diction.
Stay
Hi Branden,
On 8/17/22 13:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Reproduced:
1986 <$(man -w membarrier) groff -Tutf8 -man > grotty.out
1987 less grotty.out
1988 less -R grotty.out
1989 batcat grotty.out
The page I used is not compressed, since it's installed from source.
zcatting Debian's
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:16 AM EDT, Laurens Kils-Hütten wrote:
> The Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) is a valuable source here.
>
> I found https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/deroff
> which in turn points to http://www.moria.de/~michael/deroff/
> et voilà!
Thank you. I’ll try compiling this late
Hi Alex,
Is the subject line still accurate? I thought the problem we were
chasing at this point was that all character attributes got shut off
after the end of a highlighted match when using the pager to search for
text in a man page.
Regardless, I'm not able to reproduce _any_ misrendering.
A
Hi Alex,
Good news--I finally see a problem.
At 2022-08-17T13:49:35+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I made the reproducer smaller, so that it's reasier to investigate. I
> produced a one-liner file, and then script(1)ed the reproduction of
> the bug (I made the terminal shorter, 80x3, to get le
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 7:44 AM EDT, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, DJ Chase wrote:
>
> > It works for style, but it?s really a problem with diction. Diction
> > outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don?t
> > corrispond to the source line-numbers.
>
> I have
Hi Branden,
On 8/17/22 14:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,
Good news--I finally see a problem.
At 2022-08-17T13:49:35+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
I made the reproducer smaller, so that it's reasier to investigate. I
produced a one-liner file, and then script(1)ed the reproduction o
Hi Magnus,
On 8/17/22 15:45, Magnus Nordenadler wrote:
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 3:08 PM CEST, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
It's curious that batcat had the same bug at the same time.
Is it? Bat (or batcat in Debian) is a replacement for cat, not less; it
doesn't provide its own pager. From the read
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 3:08 PM CEST, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> It's curious that batcat had the same bug at the same time.
Is it? Bat (or batcat in Debian) is a replacement for cat, not less; it
doesn't provide its own pager. From the readme:
> By default, bat pipes its own output to a pager (e.
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, DJ Chase wrote:
I have never refered to the line number in over 30 years of using diction.
Interesting. What do you do for really long files that aren?t split into
chapters?
Split them into chapters.
How do you handle a program with 1 lines. Hopefully you split into
Riza Dindir wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
Hi!
> Finally I was able to use the dformat without problems.
Congrats! :)
> The problem was the order in the pipe. In the original paper the
> author provided an example on the order of the preprocessors. I did
> not have the correct order. It should have b
Hello Thomas
I did need tbl, abd chem for the original document, where I wanted to
create a document that had all the elements and preprocessors used in
troff.
One thing that I realized is this. When you use chem, you can not have
the # character in the dformat or other preprocessor blocks, since
The install-font script at
https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font
isn't officially part of groff or mom, but I'm posting this on the
list anyway. Someday, someone will grab the damned thing and make
it part of groff.
Robert Goulding discovered that contents of the
system font/d
Thanks, Peter - and I will second the plea that it be made somehow part of
the official distribution. It is really a fantastic little tool - Robert.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 2:29 PM Peter Schaffter wrote:
> The install-font script at
>
> https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font
>
On 8/17/22, Robert Goulding wrote:
> Thanks, Peter - and I will second the plea that it be made somehow part of
> the official distribution.
The steps needed to make this happen are outlined in the feature
request at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60930. T. Kurt Bond started
on this work but has
Fixed now. See
http://lists.gnu.org/r/savannah-hackers/2022-08/msg00013.html for the
gory details. Thank you, Bob!
Dave Kemper wrote:
> In the past couple days I've made several updates to groff Savannah
> tickets, which have always generated an immediate email to me and, not
> too long after, one in the lists.gnu.org archive of the bug-groff
> email list. Neither of these has been getting the emails since Aug
On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:28:28 BST Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Robert Goulding discovered that contents of the
> system font/devps/download file must be present in
> site-font/devps/download. Similarly, freeeuro.pfa and EURO need
> to be copied into site/font/devpdf/ and registered in its down
[Savannah hackers: see possible query bug at the end of this mail.]
This message is to compensate for some auto-generated traffic to the
bug-groff list that would have happened over the past several days but
for a problem with the Savannah ticket tracker to email service.
You can read more about
Deri --
> I don't think the site_font download file for devpdf requires the
> Euro stuff repeated, so long as it is in the system download file
> already. Gropdf already searches in all expected font directories
> for download files and builds a map in memory.
Odd. At my end, gropdf doesn't rec
>> In the past couple days I've made several updates to groff Savannah
>> tickets, which have always generated an immediate email to me and,
>> not too long after, one in the lists.gnu.org archive of the
>> bug-groff email list. Neither of these has been getting the emails
>> since August 12. (
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