Hi Damian,
At 2024-11-04T17:52:58+1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> It there a groff command which eith
>
> a)transforms a string to upper case
Yes, since groff 1.23.0 we have this.
groff(7):
.stringup str
Replace each byte in the string named str with its
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
a) transforms a string to upper case
Yes, since groff 1.23.0 we have this.
groff(7):
.stringup str
Replace each byte in the string named str with its
uppercase version.
Great.
b) capitalizes the fir
The commit log (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=f486938c5)
says:
> Spell string translations using groff special character escape
> sequences instead of Latin-1 or Latin-9 code points; this way they
> work with a document that uses them no matter what its own encoding.
>
> I
"onf" writes:
i certainly agree that, for people not regularly creating new
man
pages from scratch, having to learn roff and a macro library
probably feels like unnecessary work.
I had mostly based this on the original quotation of Andrew
Gallant,
but personally it took me a while just to
It there a groff command which eith
a) transforms a string to upper case
b) capitalizes the first letter of a string?
Thanks - Damian
Hi Alexis,
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 8:39 AM CET, Alexis wrote:
> > It's not that documentation isn't important, merely that it's
> > not so incredibly important to spend several hours on such a minor
> > task. This also becomes a problem in that manpages aren't maintained
> > as well as the softwar
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 9:44 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T05:20:13+0100, onf wrote:
> > Speaking of which, I noticed just recently that all of groff's
> > manpages don't use all caps for subheadings (.SH)... which is about
> > the first time I've seen manpage subheadings that we
At 2024-11-03T11:13:15+0100, onf wrote:
> I see, thanks for the explanation. What I forgot to mention is that my
> distribution uses BSD mandoc for manpages and I haven't changed that,
> so it just seems that mandoc's man hasn't caught up to that change
> (at least I haven't found anything like it
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T11:13:15+0100, onf wrote:
> > I see, thanks for the explanation. What I forgot to mention is that my
> > distribution uses BSD mandoc for manpages and I haven't changed that,
> > so it just seems that mandoc's man hasn't
On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 02:59:34AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 12:47:23AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm not trying to stop you committing whatever you want to your
> > repository, of course, but I want to be clear that this doesn't actually
> > solve the right pro
Hi Branden,
thank you for having patience with me :)
I have joined all the replies here.
On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 4:36 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T03:56:23+0100, onf wrote:
> > Ugh, I should have taken more time to reply -- I missed the fact that
> > groff doesn't consider DEL
"onf" writes:
Speaking of which, I noticed just recently that all of groff's
manpages
don't use all caps for subheadings (.SH)... which is about the
first
time I've seen manpage subheadings that weren't in all caps.
In my mdoc(7) ports of documentation in the skaware ecosystem
(e.g. s6-man
At 2024-11-03T05:20:13+0100, onf wrote:
> On Sat Oct 26, 2024 at 3:33 AM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2024-10-25T16:51:26+0200, onf wrote:
> > > I wonder if the author tried Drew DeVault's scdoc, it seems to
> > > work well for simpler manpages. (Output is man.)
> >
> > I'm not crazy abo
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