Hi Alex! At 2022-08-28T15:03:29+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 8/27/22 20:02, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2022-08-27T19:42:43+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > Although in this case it's for running groff(1)'s warnings, for > > > which I'll need to run groff(1). > > > > No, you're not running it for groff(1)'s warnings, you're running it > > for the formatter's warnings. The formatter is troff(1) and > > groff(1) always runs it. > > Makes sense. Good to know. So, I prefer the explicit pipeline, so I > know what really is going on. I hope this will improve the quality of > my bug reports, and my debugging abilities.
No worries there--I just don't want people to maintain misconceptions about the respective tools' responsibilities. > This width - 1 is a workaround for the issue I saw, but different from > what man(1) does. I wonder why all these workarounds exist. Because of a design decision in tbl(1) that affected how grotty(1) had to be written. You have encountered Savannah #62471. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62471 Regards, Branden
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