Hi Branden, On Thu, 19 Feb 2026, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Damian, At 2026-02-19T15:52:36+1100, Damian McGuckin wrote: I suggest that anything to do with the Riemann Sphere is not elementary, but beyond undergraduates in most disciplines. ;-)
The latest draft of the C standard uses the wording suggested by the CFP Study Group which has eliminated mention of the Riemann Sphere with that routine. The latest description hopefully now makes it clear that the mapping done by cproj() is an elementary one. The change in description will mean that the wording of the MAN page for cproj() will change sometime soon I hope.
Have I gotten so old that I don't hear tell of preteens bullying each other via social media for insufficient mastery of Lebesgue integration?
Sadly mate - Yes. We are all getting old
I assume that the summary is being separately hand-composed.
With hopefully minimal editing done to the text of the paper.
I further assume that, for whatever reason, you don't want to bite a bullet for as long as it takes to get comfortable enough with RST to complete this task.
Correct. Mastering RST is nowhere near my TODO list.
If those are correct, then what I would do is write a bastardized variant MM package that: 1. Implements only as much of the MM macro interface as you need for this specific document; 2. works only in nroff mode; and 3. formats the ASCII-spelled elements of RST that the recipients expect instead of bothering with the usual typesetting concerns that *roff macro packages have (beyond breaking lines and putting a 1v space on the output).
Scary. I might try and hack my edited summary done with MM into MS and then use 'pandoc' which supports MS (and ask MS gurus for help with MS at that point).
Thanks - Damian
