Re: Novel use of .char

2024-12-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2024-12-15T22:58:03+, Deri wrote: > On Sunday, 15 December 2024 20:03:50 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'm not able to reproduce this problem in my working copy--the GNU > > head shows up, if fuzzily--and I haven't frotzed around in the > > formatter since I last pushed. > >

Re: Novel use of .char

2024-12-15 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 14 December 2024 19:42:00 GMT Peter Schaffter wrote: > An undocumented use of the .char request is mapping a special > character to a diversion holding a graphic image so the image can be > used as a glyph. > > === > .\" 1.23.0.2146-d958f-dirty > .\" Build with pdfmom(1); output to pd

Re: Novel use of .char

2024-12-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2024-12-15T16:22:59+, Deri wrote: > On Saturday, 14 December 2024 19:42:00 GMT Peter Schaffter wrote: > > An undocumented use of the .char request is mapping a special > > character to a diversion holding a graphic image so the image can be > > used as a glyph. [...] > > I'm attach

Re: Novel use of .char

2024-12-15 Thread Deri
On Sunday, 15 December 2024 20:03:50 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-12-15T16:22:59+, Deri wrote: > > It looks like it is a regression (from 1.23.0) because if I remove the > > "kludge" and change the GNU png to pdf (so it is compatible with > > running 1.23.0) it works in 1.23.0 but i

Re: Novel use of .char

2024-12-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-12-15T16:22:59+, Deri wrote: > It looks like it is a regression (from 1.23.0) because if I remove the > "kludge" and change the GNU png to pdf (so it is compatible with > running 1.23.0) it works in 1.23.0 but is wrong in current. I also > tested using 1.23.0 groff and run the output th

Re: on the need for better quotation in man(7) (was: names of ISO 8859 encodings)

2024-12-15 Thread Dave Kemper
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:02 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > This is likely due for a cleaned up re-proposal under the new names > `QS`/`QE` as suggested by Doug McIlroy. Man pages using these proposed macros--which, since the macros don't exist yet, will be man pages edited in 2025 or l