Hi, Alex! At 2022-02-08T00:19:40+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Huh, now I realize that thunderbird(1) broke my correct man(7) source > code. I wrote the URI in the same line as .UR, but the $#!^! mailer > broke it into two lines :(
Yes, and the list archive software at gnu.org merrily does the same thing, including to my mail you quoted with all the examples.[1] :( Because people would rather read incorrect content than deal with a horizontal scroll bar, still in this age of gestural drag scrolling. :-| > We were defending the same thing. Oh. Good! 8-D [begin TWO LINES ONLY of quoted content] > > contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man:.UR > > http://\:www\:.schaffter\:.ca/\:mom/\:momdoc/\:toc\:.html > > contrib/mom/groff_mom.7.man-.UE [end TWO LINES ONLY] > This one is what I was using. Yes, that's exactly what's envisioned and recommended by the macros. As I understand it--they antedate my arrival to the groff list by 10 years. > > If we can find some cases where groff is emitting hyperlinks that it > > shouldn't, I'm keen to fix those, but we don't have any power to > > keep a terminal emulator from opportunistically hyperlinking text > > that _looks_ like a URL to it. To verify this, you can check the > > device-independent output of troff(1) by giving groff(1) the -Z > > option. You will get plain text output that may look bewildering at > > first; it is documented in groff_out(5). For our immediate > > purposes, just grep it or visually scan for lines like this: > > > > x X tty: link http://www.multicians.org/ > > x X tty: link > > Oh, I thought that it was groff(1) emitting those hyperlinks. Well, in the hand-wavy sense that groff(1) calls "troff | grotty", it _is_. > I now remember a recent discussiion, and that that is probably > disabled by default [and I don't care enough (yet) to recompile > groff(1)]. No problem then :) You don't need to recompile groff to turn them on. Just edit man.local (the groff_man(7) page should document its "./configured" directory in the page's "Files" section), or remember to add "-rU1" to your command lines. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-02/msg00028.html
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