At 2025-10-26T15:55:06-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I will therefore: > > 1. See if I can discern the root cause of P9US's bad rendering above.
The rendering problem I observed with ncurses man pages using Plan 9 from User Space troff is resolved. https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/pull/736 Strictly, the problem is worked around--there may be an excitingly deep formatter bug involved, and since Plan 9's troff is a direct descendant of AT&T troff, it still bears copious traces of that program's history of hand-decompilation from PDP-11 assembly language into C, a process that prompted the introduction into the C language of numerous features that youngsters think were present from day one. https://gunkies.org/wiki/Typesetter_C In other words, AT&T troff source code is vigorously radioactive and I ain't touchin' it without a consulting contract. Next up... > 2. See what's going wrong with terminfo(5) on Solaris 10. Regards, Branden
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