(This is for groff 1.24.)
I've opened the following ticket after getting a surprise.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64131
In AT&T troff, you cannot remove a read-only register like `.l`. It
throws no diagnostic; it silently refuses the request.
In groff, you can. As far as I can tell, this ha
Hi Alex,
At 2023-04-28T15:56:13+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Considering a build system that builds man pages into several formats,
> including utf8, PostScript, HTML, and PDF, it is interesting to be
> able to see all available warnings, and see them only once.
Where you're headed with this
Hi Alex,
At 2023-04-28T15:10:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I've got some wish, which ISTR I already expressed at some point in
> the past. There's this diagnostic:
>
> an.tmac:man3/nxt_unit_init.3:62: style: blank line in input
>
> The thing is, for example C programs I do need to violate
Hi Branden,
On 5/2/23 17:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[...]
> Where you're headed with this already sounds tricky, since GNU troff
> (like AT&T device-independent troff) reads information about the device
> for which it is preparing output at the time it starts. In fact, you
> _cannot_ launch
Hi Branden,
On 5/2/23 17:17, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> At 2023-04-28T15:10:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> I've got some wish, which ISTR I already expressed at some point in
>> the past. There's this diagnostic:
>>
>> an.tmac:man3/nxt_unit_init.3:62: style: blank line in in
Hi Branden,
On 5/3/23 00:21, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>
> troff:man3/unlocked_stdio.3:123: warning [p 2, 1.8i, div '3tbd1,0', 0.3i]:
> cannot break line
>
> an.tmac:man4/cciss.4:164: style: blank line in input
>
> man4/console_codes.4:324: warning: table wider than line length minus
> indenta
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
In practice, as I understand it, `so` doesn't achieve anything
for man
pages that can't be done with symbolic links and (importantly) a
man
page indexer that is symlink-aware. Perhaps `so` support was
preserved,
and its practice retained, for a long time becau
Hey Josh,
On 5/2/23 05:59, josh wrote:
[...]
> Here's a relevant passage about the origin of the phrase from
> https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose,
>
>> In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller (he of the domes, but also of many other
>> things) was doing research for the Phelps Do
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Wed, May 03, 2023 at 01:26:55AM +0200:
> I find it more readable when there's one space between the program
> that generates the warning and the file. That's what mandoc(1) does,
> and in general, what any program that relies on perror(3) does (I'm
> assu
Hi,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Wed, May 03, 2023 at 02:35:41AM +0200:
> Heh!
> Branden wasn't enthusiastic my emails when I wrote poetry in them, though :/
> Any chance we can warn users that they should write poems, not prose?
[...]
> Just kidding, but technically, it's probably more accurate, a
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