1.23.0rc4 .sp and .bp backward compatibility issues

2023-04-17 Thread Michał Kruszewski via
Hi Branden, I have tried 1.23.0rc4 and it still has backward compatibility issues with .sp and .bp I have described some time ago. Is it intended? Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana

2023-04-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-16T16:39:27+0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Ralph Corderoy asked: > > > When I run > > > > > > pdfinfo doc/automake.pdf | tr -d '\000' | grep "Page *size" | sed -e > > > 's/Page *size: *\\([[:digit:].]*\\) *x *\\([[:digit:].]*\\).*$/\ > > > .nr pdfpic*width (p;\\1)\\n\ > > > .nr pdfpic*heig

Re: 1.23.0rc4 .sp and .bp backward compatibility issues

2023-04-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Michał, At 2023-04-17T09:02:15+, Michał Kruszewski via wrote: > Hi Branden, > > I have tried 1.23.0rc4 and it still has backward compatibility issues > with .sp and .bp I have described some time ago. > > Is it intended? Semi-intended. After a certain date in March, our maintainer prefer

adding gnulib's sys_wait module to groff made Automake angry

2023-04-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[please CC the groff list on replies] I bisected a problem down to this change: ef6522ab5bf4420cbb755cdb76caf019777c6095 is the first bad commit commit ef6522ab5bf4420cbb755cdb76caf019777c6095 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sun Apr 16 00:50:35 2023 -0500 bootstrap.conf: Add "sys_wait"

Re: sed portability

2023-04-17 Thread Bruno Haible
G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I approve of the handful of features GNU sed added, but it is _way_ too > tolerant in what it accepts. It should smash the user's fingers with a > diagnostic hammer if they wander off the path. GNU sed supports an option '--posix', that makes it less tolerant. But sti

Re: adding gnulib's sys_wait module to groff made Automake angry

2023-04-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Branden, > The Automake anger looks like this. > > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal -I gnulib_m4 --force -I m4 -I gnulib_m4 > autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool > autorec

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana

2023-04-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Branden, > pdfinfo \ > | tr -d '\000' \ > | sed -n -e '/Page *size:/s/Page * size: *\([0-9.]*\) *x * > \([0-9.]*\).*$/\.nr pdfpic*width (p;\1)\ > .nr pdpic*height (p;\2)/;tprint > b > :print > p' Why the dance with ‘tprint’? sed -n s/foo/bar/p The \ in \.nr isn't

Re: adding gnulib's sys_wait module to groff made Automake angry

2023-04-17 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
This is groff bug #61832 (from 16th January 2022). N.B. The subject line was changed.

Re: Newbie question - Indents and paragraph filling

2023-04-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ben, > I was looking to insert a question Num and then without a break indent > the question text. Similar to the IP command with a bullet, however, > I wish to append an additional mark allocation to the end of this body > text also without a break. Attached is some source which has a go at w

Re: 1.23.0rc4 .sp and .bp backward compatibility issues

2023-04-17 Thread Deri
On Monday, 17 April 2023 10:40:15 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Michał, > > At 2023-04-17T09:02:15+, Michał Kruszewski via wrote: > > Hi Branden, > > > > I have tried 1.23.0rc4 and it still has backward compatibility issues > > with .sp and .bp I have described some time ago. > > > > I

Re: 1.23.0rc4 .sp and .bp backward compatibility issues

2023-04-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2023-04-17T18:50:11+0100, Deri wrote: > > I have a fix for the `bp` request on a Git branch.[1] I cannot say > > at this point whether it will get into groff 1.23.0 final--it's not > > solely my call. > > [...] > I have noticed our own documentation appears to have suffered a spacing