Disposition of groff 1.23.0.rc4 feedback issues

2023-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Bertrand, I've pushed a new personal staging branch, branden-2023-04-20 to groff's Git repository. I've also pushed some documentation-only changes (meaning: changes to documentation files that affect only text, and don't require alteration of build scripts, Makefiles, etc.) to master since th

Re: Disposition of groff 1.23.0.rc4 feedback issues

2023-04-20 Thread Christof Meerwald
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 03:00:45PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > 2. addressed in documentation on master (NEWS) prior to RC4 >(f9e84954174); reporter remains unhappy, but does not respond to >requests for more precise information I guess the technical details should be well understoo

Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] regex.3: improve REG_STARTEND

2023-04-20 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 4/20/23 20:33, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [Note for non-mdoc(7) speakers: `Sx` is its macro for (sub)section > heading cross references. man(7) doesn't have an equivalent, though if > there is demand, I'm happy to implement one. :D] I've been delaying my global switch to non-sh

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana

2023-04-20 Thread Dave Kemper
On 4/19/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > We still won't be able to support Solaris sed, in either its /usr/bin or > /usr/xpg4/bin forms. Unless we change the way GNU troff processes `sy` > arguments, we will forever need a non-standard extension to sed(1) to > pull of this sort of tomfoolery. It

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana

2023-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-20T18:14:04-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 4/19/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > We still won't be able to support Solaris sed, in either its > > /usr/bin or /usr/xpg4/bin forms. Unless we change the way GNU troff > > processes `sy` arguments, we will forever need a non-standard > > e

Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] regex.3: improve REG_STARTEND

2023-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-04-21T00:29:12+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 4/20/23 20:33, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [Note for non-mdoc(7) speakers: `Sx` is its macro for (sub)section > > heading cross references. man(7) doesn't have an equivalent, though > > if there is demand, I'm happy to impleme