Re: [PATCH] tweak a mom diagnostic

Hi Peter, At 2024-02-16T23:09:10-0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Do you mind if I include this in {my next,a future} push? > > Let me take care of it. I'm planning to push a couple of changes in > the next few days. I'll include it then. Works for me! Regards, Branden signature.asc Descrip

Re: [idea] troff -Troff

Hi Alex, At 2024-02-16T19:28:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:49:52AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > And so it is with the roff languages. An arbitrary number of macro > > expansions may have taken place. > > Hmmm. But maybe approximating by saying "the orig

How to crash the formatter with a dummy character (was: troff -Tpdf: '.' in SS macro)

Hi Alex, I regret to ask you to work around this problem in Linux man-pages at the man(7) document source level for the time being. In other words, if you have a (sub)section heading that starts with ' or ., please prefix it with the dummy character yourself in man(7) source. .SS ".profile and .

Re: [idea] troff -Troff

[self-follow-up] At 2024-02-17T11:07:38-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > Ah, it appears that 15 hours ago, this issue was resolved with my > assistance, which is good because I couldn't have +1ed the patch > anyway. Ahem. *WITHOUT* my as

Re: [TUHS] Re: [idea] troff -Troff

Doug followed up on one of our groff threads over on the TUHS list. Here it is. At 2024-02-17T17:52:11-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > To expand on Branden's observation that translating from one member of the > roff family to another is hard, I note that the final output usually > presents a text

Re: How to crash the formatter with a dummy character (was: troff -Tpdf: '.' in SS macro)

Hi Branden, On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 11:23:11AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I regret to ask you to work around this problem in Linux man-pages at > the man(7) document source level for the time being. I'll do. I'll have to add to my CV "uncoverer of ancient bugs". 0u0 Have