On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:13:14PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I've prepared a GNU Savannah query for all resolved tickets of Important
> severity whose fixes are expected in groff 1.24.[7] Some are fixes for
> regressions. Doug's message about "groff -ms -p" not working is one.
>
> If a
On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:20:06PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-07-03T22:32:06+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I think this is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64438, right? If
> > experts advise that this patch is safe to cherry-pick in isolation (I
> > know neither -ms nor pic well),
The cited file is what would result from [groff /dev/null]. Why is it in
the groff distribution?
Doug
Slight correction. groff needs one empty line of input, not zero lines, to
produce proof.ps. According to the postscript, it was made with grops 1.22.
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From: Douglas McIlroy
Date: Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Subject: what is /usr/share/doc/groff/proof.ps?
To:
Hi Doug,
At 2024-07-04T07:56:40-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> The cited file is what would result from [groff /dev/null].
[...]
> Slight correction. groff needs one empty line of input, not zero
> lines, to produce proof.ps.
> Why is it in the groff distribution?
I don't think that it is. We s
Hi Colin,
At 2024-07-04T08:56:01+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> What are the plans for a 1.24 release?
I muttered some thoughts a few months ago.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-02/msg00054.html
> In general I think it's bad to drift into a habit of allowing too much
> time and too m
