an.tmac, .TH: shows the same text twice in the header! Why necessary?

2023-07-22 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Example from "sensible-terminal(1)": .\" -*- nroff -*- .TH SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR 1 "28 Aug 2022" "Debian" .SH NAME sensible-terminal-emulator \- sensible terminal emulator -.-. With "/usr/bin/man --version": man 2.11.2 Output from "env MANWIDTH=80 /usr/bin/man -l example": grotty::():9: w

Re: an.tmac, .TH: shows the same text twice in the header! Why necessary?

2023-07-22 Thread Dave Kemper
On 7/22/23, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header, You've been seeing this for decades and have never noticed it, because most Unix commands are short and the repetition is unobtrusive. Try "man ls", "man grep", "man ssh", "man ascii"

Re: graphical manuals

2023-07-22 Thread James K. Lowden
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:33:09 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > Looking at the railroad diagram, I wonder if there are enough drawing > characters in UTF-8 that they could be used for the diagrams rather > than generating image files that would likely not be useful for > terminal output. Thanks for

Re: an.tmac, .TH: shows the same text twice in the header! Why necessary?

2023-07-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-07-22T19:21:39+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header, > is once not enough and why? (Is this necessary(?)) It's tradition. See attachment. Also see groff's PROBLEMS file. * I don't like the page headers and footers p