Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 2023-08-16 05:55, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [...] >> Would you mind sending an updated commit message? > > I did, but you found a fresh problem, this time with part 1, so I guess > we'll be going to v4! :-O Also I'm going to make an attempt to drive > the part 1 change with sed

Re: Anyone want to write an article about fonts in groff?

2023-08-16 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hi Jim, On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I was thinking about writing a few articles for Technically We Write > about fonts in groff. But I thought "This would be a great article for > someone else to write" so I wanted to suggest it here. > > Here are

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:55:22PM -0500: > If the page is withdrawn, I expect distributors will need to manage the > man.7 page using Debian's "alternatives" mechanism or similar; if > groff_man.7 is installed, man.7 should be a symlink to it. If > mandoc_m

QR codes in pic

2023-08-16 Thread Alexis
Hello everyone, those using QR codes in their documents prepared with GNU troff, might welcome a PRĀ¹ for libqrencode, that adds support to generate QR codes drawn with pic(1). Libqrencode hasn't seen a release in quite some time and seems dormant; if you find the work interesting and have a GitHu

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Ingo! On 2023-08-16 18:33, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That perspective is not really helpful for general purpose Linux > distributions: for these, the Linux man-pages project matters a lot, > and that project is not considering the man(7) language as obsolete at > all. That i keep recommending cha

linting mdoc(7) pages (was: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`))

2023-08-16 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Ingo! On 2023-08-16 20:25, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Ingo! > > On 2023-08-16 18:33, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> That perspective is not really helpful for general purpose Linux >> distributions: for these, the Linux man-pages project matters a lot, >> and that project is not considering the ma