Re: [Optional] versus parameters

2023-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > this is something that's been eating away at me every time I've > resorted to using square-brackets as a logical grouping mechanism; > i.e., stuff like > > [[*upgrade* | *update*] *package*] That's using [] to mean two different things so is clearly a bad idea. :-) > This could be int

Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2023-02-22 19:26, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi Brian, At 2023-02-22T11:42:00-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: That and what you've changed already is much better than current, as it previously read as if global/region options could be specified after .T&. I had tried to avoid implying that, but

Re: [PATCH] src/libs/libxutil/XFontName.c(utoa): non-GNU stdlib.h conflict

2023-02-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff@gnu for discussion] Hi Brian, At 2023-02-23T00:46:45-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > gcc 11.3 build failure when static utoa definition in XFontName.c > conflicts with extern utoa declared in stdlib.h (but is not a WG14- or POSIX-standardized function) > third argument is usually

Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-23 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:13:03 GMT Brian Inglis wrote: > > So, if some entrepreneur wants to fund me for a year or two to move this > > forward, shoot me an email. ;-) > > See https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/gen-epub-book awk script > and packages asciidoc, docbook-utils, ebook-tools, h

Re: [PATCH] src/libs/libxutil/XFontName.c(utoa): non-GNU stdlib.h conflict

2023-02-23 Thread Brian Inglis
Thanks Branden, On 2023-02-23 09:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2023-02-23T00:46:45-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: gcc 11.3 build failure when static utoa definition in XFontName.c conflicts with extern utoa declared in stdlib.h (but is not a WG14- or POSIX-standardized function) third argume

Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2023-02-23 09:02, Deri wrote: On Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:13:03 GMT Brian Inglis wrote: So, if some entrepreneur wants to fund me for a year or two to move this forward, shoot me an email. ;-) See https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/gen-epub-book awk script and packages asciidoc, docbo

Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-23 Thread Alexis
Brian Inglis writes: Kindles now support epubs (v3 I think) which provide a much better and nicer experience on an epaper (eink is a TM) ereader (especially hi res 2-300dpi) with packages above. If you can produce X/HTML chapters, converting most symbolic entities to UTF-8, with gif/jpeg/

Re: [PATCH] src/libs/libxutil/XFontName.c(utoa): non-GNU stdlib.h conflict

2023-02-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Brian, At 2023-02-23T10:04:41-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2023-02-23 09:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-02-23T00:46:45-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > gcc 11.3 build failure when static utoa definition in XFontName.c > > > conflicts with extern utoa declared in stdlib.h [...] > >

Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-23 Thread Steve Izma
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 08:26:19PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Subject: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl > not rendered) > > [And prefer "open" ePub, vs *proprietary* Adobe PS and PDF, > > PDF is an international standard these days,[1] though I wonder >