Kamil Rytarowski wrote in
<12f29556-2407-2f6f-de5c-67539bca6...@netbsd.org>:
|I apologize for nerves and words that could be avoided.
|
|I'm going to summarize the situation with formatters in the NetBSD base.
|
|1. NetBSD base ships with two programs that can format manual pages from
|base and most 3rd party software: BSD mandoc (newest) and GPLv2 groff
|1.19.2 (old, from 2005).
Not much good happened since then on the source side, i would even
go back a bit further.
|2. mandoc as of today renders correctly 99.8% of manual pages from
I find mandoc formatting terrible when indentation is involved,
really. It has been like that forever, and i was reading
carefully already at a time where this number was much lower.
For example compare
‘*!*’ the error number is tracked in !.
‘needs-box’ whether the command needs an active
mailbox, a folder.
‘ok:’ indicators whether command is ...
‘batch/interactive’
usable in interactive
or batch mode (-#).
‘send-mode’ usable in send mode.
‘subprocess’ allowed to be used when
running in a subprocess
instance, for example
from within a macro
that is called via
on-compose-splice.
with
‘needs-box’ whether the command needs an active mailbox, a
folder[199].
‘ok:’ indicators whether command is ...
‘batch/interactive’
usable in interactive or batch mode
(-#[88]).
‘send-mode’ usable in send mode.
‘subprocess’ allowed to be used when running in a
subprocess instance, for example from
within a macro that is called via
on-compose-splice[489].
or
(purposes).
‘content-description’ Associate
some
descriptive
information
to the
attachment's
content,
used in
favour of
the plain
filename by
some MUAs.
‘content-id’ May be used
for uniquely
identifying
MIME
with
for) saving (purposes).
‘content-description’ Associate some descriptive
information to the attachment's con‐
tent, used in favour of the plain
filename by some MUAs.
‘content-id’ May be used for uniquely identify‐
ing MIME entities in several con‐
texts; this expects a special refer‐
all moved to the left to fit in this message, but otherwise just
taken the output i get. I wonder why you (or anyone else) never
recognized these differences.
Technically you are correct, of course.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
