Should temporary indentation be ignored when centering?

2023-05-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi all, For just over 23 years, since commit e9b0d52dec, our Texinfo manual has claimed that temporary indentation is ignored when lines are being centered with the `ce` request. But that is not the case in groff 1.22.4 or Git HEAD, and it's not true of DWB 3.3 troff or Heirloom Doctools troff, e

Knuth, Hoare, and premature optimization

2023-05-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-08-09T20:47:09-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:06:45 -0500 > "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > > > (the "root of all evil" thing), which also got stuffed into > > Donald Knuth's mouth > > Knuth did say it. Please see " Structured Programming with go to > Statements

Explanations with an EQN User Guide

2023-05-21 Thread Damian McGuckin
I am resurrecting my re-write of the EQN User Guide which was itself an elaboration of Ted Harding's User Guide. I have used many examples from BrianK's and LorindaC's original 2nd Edition EQN document because I wanted backwards continuity in the examples. Ted also addresses MM which I have