Well, nobody's objected to any of these, and each has gotten an agreeable voice attached to it (thanks to the grizzled Doug McIlroy for a +1 to item #3), so I reckon I'll proceed with them. All 3 now have Savannah tickets now, too.
At 2021-06-18T01:48:14+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > 1. "Skip the stripper". Mooted several times on this list in the > past, this proposal to stop shipping some macro packages (hdtbl, > mdoc, and "me") in a condensed, hard-to-read form akin to > JavaScript minification already enjoys a consensus, but was shelved > on perceived scheduling grounds. > <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55091> > > 2. Move grog from src/roff to src/utils. I mooted this on 5 June. I > already drastically altered grog's internal structure, making it a > stand-alone script. [...] > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60788 > > 3. Rename "an-old.tmac" to simply "an.tmac". [...] > This would be a NEWS-worthy item because the "-man" argument to > groff (or nroff, or troff) would no longer load the andoc wrapper. [...] > I think andoc.tmac is cool and wish to keep it around; apart from > being useful for its stated purpose, it's an excellent exhibit of > how to do certain clever things with the *roff language family (and > brief enough to not defy comprehension). But I do not think the > case for andoc arrogating the "-man" and "-m man" arguments to > itself is a strong one. [...] > So I propose to advise users (and authors of man(1) librarians) in > the NEWS file to invoke groff with the "-mandoc" argument ...for rendering man pages. [...] > This was already a good idea, but not truly necessary. Now it will > be. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60789 Regards, Branden
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