Unhappy news seen via Paul Eggert.
Its EOL date is kicked down the road to January 2027 now.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/new-end-date-of-extended-support-for-oracle-solaris-10-and-113
I gripe because Solaris 10 is a highly non-POSIX, burdensome target to
support. I can only hope that
It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would
make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to
add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a
colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would add \e[0m to
beginning and end of ev
echo ä | gpic | hexStream
0x2e 0x69 0x66 0x20 0x21 0x64 0x50 0x53 | .if !dPS
0x20 0x2e 0x64 0x73 0x20 0x50 0x53 0x0a | .ds PS.
0x2e 0x69 0x66 0x20 0x21 0x64 0x50 0x45 | .if !dPE
0x20 0x2e 0x64 0x73 0x20 0x50 0x45 0x0a | .ds PE.
0x2e 0x6c 0x66 0x20 0x31 0x20 0x2d 0x0a | .lf 1 -.
0xc3 0xa4 0x
Quoth holger.herrl...@posteo.de:
echo ä | gpic | hexStream
0x2e 0x69 0x66 0x20 0x21 0x64 0x50 0x53 | .if !dPS
0x20 0x2e 0x64 0x73 0x20 0x50 0x53 0x0a | .ds PS.
0x2e 0x69 0x66 0x20 0x21 0x64 0x50 0x45 | .if !dPE
0x20 0x2e 0x64 0x73 0x20 0x50 0x45 0x0a | .ds PE.
0x2e 0x6c 0x66 0x20 0x31 0x20
Quoth aackmann:
It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would
make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to
add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a
colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would add \e[0m to
begin
aackmann writes:
It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That
would
make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be
able to
add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art.
There are already man pages doing that, e.g. ffmpeg(1):
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm
Lennart Jablonka wrote:
>>It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would
>>make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to
>>add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a
>>colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would ad
At 2023-12-28T21:47:34+, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> It should be possible to produce different output depending
> on the n or t condition.
groff's soelim(1) page does that.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man?h=1.23.0#n249
Regards,
Branden
signatu
Hi Branden,
how can we inform the manpage maintainer for man(1) that groff has
evolved beyond 1.17?
On my system (a quite fresh installation of Fedora 39)
$ man man
states for the option -T[device]: "Examples (provided with Groff-1.17)
include dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 and X100."
Hey, there
Hi Oliver,
At 2023-12-28T22:59:08+0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> how can we inform the manpage maintainer for man(1) that groff has
> evolved beyond 1.17?
He knows. When he next does a release, and that release percolates into
the distribution you use, you may get a pleasant surpri
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