Re: Summary of man-page formatting

2021-03-16 Thread Reinoud Zandijk
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:08:39AM +, David Holland wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:03:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > Well, there is lout to consider. > > [...] > > > I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk' > > > script could indeed do it as its format i

Re: Summary of man-page formatting

2021-03-16 Thread Mouse
> Yeah, who uses rendering a manpage in a tight loop ;) If it runs on > the older machines in a few seconds I don't think its going to be an > issue. And it isn't that slow is it? As someone who still routinely uses "older machines", if it is significantly slower than nroff, it will be a problem

Re: Summary of man-page formatting

2021-03-16 Thread David Holland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:16:49PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > > > Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :) > > > > > > Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch > > > formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons. > >

lout (was: Summary of man-page formatting)

2021-03-16 Thread Edgar Fuß
> However, I took a quick look at the source yesterday and it seems the > code comes as 52 source files numbered 01-52, which is not, shall we > say, entirely auspicious. :-| Well, any decent C programmer would have called them z00.c through z51.c.

proposal: remove traditional C support from lint

2021-03-16 Thread Roland Illig
Hi, when I run lint with the -t flag for traditional C (which means before C90), I always get these warnings: $ >empty.c $ lint -t empty.c (1): warning: 'long double' is illegal in traditional C [266] (1): warning: function prototypes are illegal in traditional C [270] (2): warning: 'long double

Re: proposal: remove traditional C support from lint

2021-03-16 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Mar 16, 2021, at 4:55 PM, Roland Illig wrote: > > Any objections to removing the -t flag and everything that belongs to it? No objections from me. -- thorpej