Hi Dave,
> whereas < and > are pretty common for this and no one will bat an eye
> at those in non-UTF-8 contexts.
‘The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
text documents and protocol fields.
I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon
in groff_char.7. Yes, info groff probably tells me more than I want to
know. Still, I expect the man page to be terse, but intelligible.
What's an "entity"? Fortunately, Dave Kemper's post shed light on
this question.
The first
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [adding Dave to CC; seek your name below for my magical summons]
>
> At 2023-03-31T13:05:09-0700, Mike Fulton wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:57 AM G. Branden Robinson <
> > > As a groff developer, I'
Hi Doug,
At 2023-04-01T19:45:19-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon
> in groff_char.7.
This, and phrases like "in the actual version", are regrettable defects
in the groff 1.22.4 version of this man page.
The one in the groff 1.23.0
At 2023-04-01T16:47:25-0700, Mike Fulton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson <
> g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When you're ready to make that shift, be sure to read the
> > "INSTALL.REPO" file in the root of the repository or distribution
> > archive.
> >
>
> Br