Hi Walter, At 2025-11-16T12:36:05+0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > Peter knows me somewhat (and although I don't know him personally, > without exaggeration, I consider him a friend), I know he won't mind > what I'm going to say (and he'll probably agree). > > Among other points, taking into account that one of the goals in this > release is: > > 1. document "install-font.bash" script (bug #58831, Need Info) > > And Peter's script includes *a whole man page* in its body, I assume > that script will be sanitized before including it in the release.
Probably. > My advice is that, at the very least, you remove the color escapes > (\033) Last month I submitted a patch to GNU Bash to do something similar,[1] and Chet incorporated it. > and bashisms, to make it portable. > > Finally, I don't remember presently the causes, but that script didn't > work for me in the occasions I tried it, this is why I wrote my own > version: > > https://en.roquesor.com/groff.html > > Under the title "What my script does that others don't do" you'll find > other improvements that could be added to the script. Worth looking at, for sure. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-10/msg00162.html
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