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On 2023-10-15 01:30 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-10-14T20:51:27-0600, Antonio Russo wrote:
>
> Quick background: in the context of Unix usage as documented by
> nroff/troff, the dash used at the shell prompt, in text editors, and in
> programming language source code is a "minus sig
On 2023-10-15 16:08:32, Wookey wrote:
> I think you can consider me representative of the typical maintainer
> who's intereaction with *roff languages almost entirely takes the
> form: 'Oh bloody hell I really ought to write a man page for this
> because upstream is too youthful to have done so - n
On 2023-10-15 Wookey wrote:
[...]
> OK. So I read all that, and learned a whole load of stuff I was quite
> happy not knowing about.
> However despite reading it all, and especially this bit:
> "Whenever I've maintained man pages in roff I tend to be precise in
> > the usage of - and \-, but TBH
On 15/10/23 17:33, Iustin Pop wrote:
At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at least, I don't
have to go back to *roff.
Another option for the m
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Wookey writes:
> I was left not actually know what - and \- represent, nor which one I
> _should_ be using in my man pages. And that seems to be the one thing we
> should be telling the 'average maintainer'.
- turns into a real hyphen (, U+2010). \- turns into the ASCII
hyphen-minus that we us
Hi,
Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2023-10-15 17:59:32)
> On 15/10/23 17:33, Iustin Pop wrote:
> > At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
> > build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
> > that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at lea
Hi Wookey,
At 2023-10-15T16:08:32+0100, Wookey wrote:
> OK. So I read all that, and learned a whole load of stuff I was quite
> happy not knowing about.
>
> However despite reading it all, and especially this bit:
> > Whenever I've maintained man pages in roff I tend to be precise in
> > the usag
Minor point, but since you posted it
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> ...
> \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the
> Unix command‐line option dash in the output. “-” is a
> hyphen in the roff language; some output devices replace it
>
On 15/10/23 19:13, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2023-10-15 17:59:32)
On 15/10/23 17:33, Iustin Pop wrote:
At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
that's a worse s
At 2023-10-15T10:01:20-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think my position at this point as pod2man maintainer (not yet
> implemented in podlators) is that every occurrence of - in POD source
> will be translated into \-, rather than using the current heuristics,
> and people who meant to use ‐ should
Hi Russ,
At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Minor point, but since you posted it
No worries!
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>
> > ...
>
> > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the
> > Unix command‐line option dash in the output. “
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> How about this?
> \- Minus sign. \- produces the basic Latin hyphen‐minus
> specifying Unix command‐line options and frequently used in
> file names. “-” is a hyphen in roff; some output devices
> replace it with U+20
On Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:33:07 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
> build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
> that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at least, I don't
> have to go back to *roff.
FWI
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At 2023-10-15T13:11:47-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sorry for my original message, which was very poorly worded and
> probably incredibly confusing. Let me try to make less of a hash of
> it. I think what I'm proposing is something like:
My reply to this didn't make it to the -devel list even aft
On October 16, 2023 2:41:08 AM GMT+02:00, "Trent W. Buck"
wrote:
>FWIW, there are lighter alternatives than pandoc:
>
>pandoc:After this operation, 174 MB of
> additional disk space will be used.
>sphinx-doc (sphinx-build -b man): After this operation, 140 MB
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