Hi Alex,
At 2024-06-10T21:24:54+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> Is it correct to nest EX/EE within nf/fi?
It's harmless. "Correct" is a question of taste and attempts at
portability to legacy systems.
> $ cat nfi.man
> .TH EXE 7 2024-06-10 alx
> .SH Name
>
G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> For groff list subscribers, I will add, because people are accustomed
> to me venturing radical suggestions for reforms of macro packages,
> I suggest that we can get rid of groff mm's "MOVE" and "PGFORM"
> extensions. They're buggy (as the man page has long conceded),
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:52:30AM GMT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
Hi Branden,
> At 2024-06-10T21:24:54+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Hi Branden,
> >
> > Is it correct to nest EX/EE within nf/fi?
>
> It's harmless. "Correct" is a question of taste and attempts at
> portability
[TUHS dropped from distribution]
At 2024-06-11T15:05:38+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > For groff list subscribers, I will add, because people are accustomed
> > to me venturing radical suggestions for reforms of macro packages,
> > I suggest that we can get rid of gro
Hi Alex,
At 2024-06-11T16:44:14+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > .P
> > > .B #include
> > > .P
> > > .B #define BAR \[dq]bar\[dq]
> > > .fi
> >
> > I think the foregoing would be off-putting with family changes in
> > it. I've also never seen this idiom of setting the preprocessor
I didn't read your reply. As others have found, you write too much,
drowning their free time, and so they give up participating in the
community. It takes enough of my time to write a carefully considered
and polite email in the first place. You normally don't reciprocate.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
At 2024-06-11T17:02:21+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> I didn't read your reply. As others have found, you write too much,
> drowning their free time, and so they give up participating in the
> community. It takes enough of my time to write a carefully considered
> and polite email in the first pla
> I'd structure what you have like this:
>
> .nf
> .EX
> ...
> .EE
> .fi
.EX/.EE is too dumb for this. Anything between .EE and .fi will get
filled, which is almost certainly contrary to the purpose of .nf/.fi.
Mandoc's diagnostic is good advice.
Doug
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:10:01AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-06-11T17:02:21+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I didn't read your reply. As others have found, you write too much,
> > drowning their free time, and so they give up participating in the
> > community. It takes enough o
