Re: Title woes with mm

On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: not long after yesterday's question I went to sleep. This morning I woke up thinking "why bother with the macros, just do the layout yourself", and in the meantime you had written. Your answer was exactly what I wanted to do. It gives you the flexibil

Re: [MS] Split Header

On 12/12/23, Wael Karram wrote: > Now, it doesn't work anymore after a recent groff update. What ends > up happening is that indeed the text is aligned as intended - but on > different consecutive lines. > Omitting the DEs makes it work as intended, but gives a warning about un- > terminated DSes.

Re: [MS] Split Header

Hi Wael, Bad news first. At 2023-12-12T17:30:15+0200, Wael Karram wrote: > I'm trying to get a split header much like say in a classic mail card > where you'd have some details on the left and parallel to them other > details on the right - this is using the ms macro set. > > In the past I used

Nice new Savannah bug tracking feature: dependency graph

Hi folks, The intrepid Ineiev came through once again. I would think this would be worth a "news" announcement on the Savannah home page, but that hasn't happened. I recently asked for a way to dump the ticket dependencies from a project.[1] Ineiev swiftly implemented it and even though I expli

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

Hi Holger, At 2023-12-11T19:35:42+0100, Holger Herrlich wrote: > As far as I got, by playing around, the '\c' doesn't matter. I think it does; I think it was Werner who put the cautionary language (which I quoted) in our Texinfo manual about this, and this seemed to be squarely on point when I fi

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

Hi Deri, At 2023-12-10T18:43:42+, Deri wrote: > On Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:25:27 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > When a line of output is "finished" and sent to the device > > (device-independent output is prepared for it), the vertical > > position advances by one vee, and, (in groff,

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

On Sunday, 17 December 2023 20:53:52 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > At 2023-12-10T18:43:42+, Deri wrote: > > On Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:25:27 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > When a line of output is "finished" and sent to the device > > > (device-independent output is

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

At 2023-12-17T21:13:27+, Deri wrote: > > I challenge you to explain! :D > > Add .fl after Hello. :-) That's not an explanation! Just more magic! :-O Anyone want to spare me some time in GDB? >cringe< Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

At 2023-12-17T21:13:27+, Deri wrote: > Add .fl after Hello. :-) A quick experiment reveals that `br` has the same effect, which means that a different documentary statement of mine is wrong: --snip-- What if the file ends before enough words have been collected to fill an output line? Or

Re: [MS] Split Header

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 2023-12-17 at 14:28 -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Wael, > > Bad news first. > > At 2023-12-12T17:30:15+0200, Wael Karram wrote: > > I'm trying to get a split header much like say in a classic mail card > > where you'd have some det