On Thursday, 22 December 2022 21:57:52 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You can take it as a Christmas present Now, I'm officially waiting
> > for groff-1.23 to be released to declare it as a dependency. Deri
> > sent me a present for Christmas, and it would be a much smaller and
> > better pr
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> That's fair, and it isn't the first time I've heard capable people
> express the opinion that having a document translator produce idiomatic
> man(7) font alternation macro calls rather than chains of font selection
> escape sequences was Just Too Damned Hard. If
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> Right. Four or five years ago I proposed a new groff special character
> identifier `\(hm` to cover this case. But this was not met with assent,
> and I concede that the problem may be confined to man pages.
I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff ou
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>For the (neutral) double quote, you have recourse to an obscure
> syntactical feature of AT&T 'troff'. Because a double quote can begin a
> macro argument, the formatter keeps track of whether the current
> argument was started thus, and doesn't require a space
Hi Deri,
On 12/23/22 18:51, Deri wrote:
On Thursday, 22 December 2022 21:57:52 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
You can take it as a Christmas present Now, I'm officially waiting
for groff-1.23 to be released to declare it as a dependency. Deri
sent me a present for Christmas, and it would be
* On 2022 23 Dec 11:52 -0600, Deri wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 December 2022 21:57:52 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > You can take it as a Christmas present Now, I'm officially waiting
> > > for groff-1.23 to be released to declare it as a dependency. Deri
> > > sent me a present for Christmas
On Saturday, 24 December 2022 00:03:41 GMT Nate Bargmann wrote:
> 2719 pages with no table of contents or index! Aside from the intro
> man page, I couldn't make sense of the order.
>
> - Nate
You may need to open the outline pane on the left, which acts like a table of
contents.
Cheers
Deri
On Dec 23, 2022, at 3:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man pages?
I realize I’m just one person, but my use of groff (and Heirloom for using
useful fonts) is entirely outside of man pages…
Ricky
On 24/12/22 12:26, Richard Morse wrote:
On Dec 23, 2022, at 3:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man pages?
I realize I’m just one person, but my use of groff (and Heirloom for using
useful fonts) is entirely outside of man pages…
Like
Hi Russ,
At 2022-12-23T10:03:13-0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> > That's fair, and it isn't the first time I've heard capable people
> > express the opinion that having a document translator produce
> > idiomatic man(7) font alternation macro calls rather than chains o
At 2022-12-23T12:49:15-0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> > Right. Four or five years ago I proposed a new groff special
> > character identifier `\(hm` to cover this case. But this was not
> > met with assent, and I concede that the problem may be confined to
> > man pa
Hi Russ,
At 2022-12-23T14:42:42-0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Incidentally, the rules for the second argument to .ds appear to not
> follow the normal rules for macro arguments.
>
> .ds C` ""
>
> defines \*(C` to a single double-quote, but:
>
> .ds C`
>
> defines \*(C` to """, not to " as o
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