Re: Warn about long lines

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Ralph,

On 8/29/22 12:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

Hi Alejandro,

Piping grotty's output into ‘col -pbx’ may also be useful.

Changed; thanks!  BTW, I didn't add -p, since I don't think it's
necessary.

I added it so if you've thought wrong the unrecognised control sequences
will show up rather than be silenced.  That might quickly show it should
be omitted, but I thought it interesting to find out.

Hmm, yeah, that would help.

Now it only uses normal ASCII chars.

Be aware you're now testing something different from what most of your
users will experience.

Something that can be used as

... | toplaintext | ...

As in:


tbl man1/memusage.1 \
| eqn -Tutf8 \
| troff -man -t -M ./etc/groff/tmac -m checkstyle -rCHECKSTYLE=3 \
        -ww -Tutf8 -rLL=78n \
| grotty -c \
| col -b -x \
| toplaintext \
| (! grep -n '.\{80\}.' >&2)


For the moment, I'll keep the -Tascii.



Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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I know; I'm not entirely happy with it. If you know a (hopefully trivial) filter that transforms any multi-byte sequences in exactly the number of bytes that will be visible (and hopefully those bytes should be similar to the original UTF-8 content), that would greatly help. I'll investigate if anything like this exists, and otherwise I'll consider doing it myself.

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