> When a diversion that doesn't fit on the last page of a document and
> has to be deferred to the next (ie a float) is followed by a few
> lines of type that don't reach the bottom margin, processing stops
> at the end of the text and the diversion is never output. [...]
Minimum example, please
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> How is someone attempting to understand a #!/bin/sh script to know what the
> writer intended if there is no documented way to interpret the syntax?
#!/bin/sh
# This script is written for the bash shell. See bash(1).
Or is that just too obvious?
--
I've hit a conundrum to which I cannot seem to find a solution.
When a diversion that doesn't fit on the last page of a document and
has to be deferred to the next (ie a float) is followed by a few
lines of type that don't reach the bottom margin, processing stops
at the end of the text and the di
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:07:20PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Mike Bianchi wrote:
> >
> > > There is no man page for sh(1) .
> > > There is no executable for /bin/sh . On Debian ...
> >
> > Sorry if that answ
Hi,
Tethys wrote on Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:06:31AM +:
> Colin Watson writes:
>>Perhaps just:
>>
>> tmp=$d/eqn2graph$${$RANDOM:+-$RANDOM}
>>
>>then?
That, or just
tmp=$d/eqn2graph$$-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
A collision is not dangerous in terms of security,
and we are only talking about a f
Colin Watson writes:
>Perhaps just:
>
> tmp=$d/eqn2graph$${$RANDOM:+-$RANDOM}
>
>then?
Since it's not guaranteed to be present, why not just ignore $RANDOM
and use our own randomly generated integer instead? Something like:
groff_rand=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | sum
Hi,
Roger Leigh wrote on Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:07:20PM +:
> It isn't broken. It's just a minimal POSIX shell. It will work
> fine with any script, providing you aren't using any non-standard
> bash, ksh or zsh extensions. There might possibly be some new
> POSIX shell standard features w
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Mike Bianchi wrote:
>
> > There is no man page for sh(1) .
> > There is no executable for /bin/sh . On Debian ...
>
> Sorry if that answer seems blunt, but it is not groff's
> problem if the shell is broken in Debia
Hi Mike,
Mike Bianchi wrote:
> There is no man page for sh(1) .
> There is no executable for /bin/sh . On Debian ...
Sorry if that answer seems blunt, but it is not groff's
problem if the shell is broken in Debian.
> For those reasons, I think #!/bin/sh should be outlawed!
Hilarious. :-D
(blush) really nice bicycles..
Original Message
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:49:27 -0500
From: Mike Bianchi
To: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: Re: Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> :
> Imh
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
|Hi Steffen,
|
|> I'd really rather do something like the below instead.
|...
|> -tmp=$d/eqn2graph$$-$RANDOM
|> +tmp=$d/eqn2graph$$-${RANDOM:-${$}}
|
|That's assuming the environment doesn't contain a RANDOM from somewhere.
ph!
|:-)
|
|Cheers, Ralph.
Colin Watson wrote:
|I suppose it isn't a fatal incompatibility, since $RANDOM just expands
|to the empty string on other shells and mkdir will probably fail; maybe
|we could just leave it alone since the above is really no better than
|that.[.]
yes of course.
It was just me seeing /bin/bash,
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> |+2014-01-02 Colin Watson
> |+
> |+ * contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh: Use bash rather than sh; $RANDOM
> |+ is a bashism.
> |+ * contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh: Likewise.
> |+ * con
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:52:42PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> You have now write access :-)
Thanks!
> Please submit, together with a proper ChangeLog entry.
Yes, I realised I'd forgotten ChangeLog shortly after sending. Done.
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...
Hi Steffen,
> I'd really rather do something like the below instead.
...
> -tmp=$d/eqn2graph$$-$RANDOM
> +tmp=$d/eqn2graph$$-${RANDOM:-${$}}
That's assuming the environment doesn't contain a RANDOM from somewhere.
:-)
Cheers, Ralph.
Happy new year.
Colin Watson wrote:
|+2014-01-02 Colin Watson
|+
|+ * contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh: Use bash rather than sh; $RANDOM
|+ is a bashism.
|+ * contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh: Likewise.
|+ * contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh: Likewise.
I'd really rather do so
* src/preproc/eqn/main.cpp: Define EQ and EN if they are not already
defined, to appease "groff -wmac".
* src/preproc/pic/main.cpp: Likewise for PS and PE.
Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/495713
---
ChangeLog| 8
src/preproc/eqn/main.cpp | 2 ++
src/preproc/pic/main.cpp | 4
> This is based on an old patch from Fumitoshi UKAI
> in the Debian groff packaging, cleaned up and
> extended to cover all fonts by me.
You have now write access :-) Please submit, together with a proper
ChangeLog entry.
Werner
---
ChangeLog| 7 +++
contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh | 2 +-
contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh | 2 +-
contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh | 2 +-
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index abf7534..33c5175 100644
--- a/Cha
This is based on an old patch from Fumitoshi UKAI in
the Debian groff packaging, cleaned up and extended to cover all fonts
by me.
---
font/devascii/Makefile.sub | 4 ++--
font/devcp1047/Makefile.sub | 4 ++--
font/devhtml/Makefile.sub | 4 ++--
font/devlatin1/Makefile.sub | 4 ++--
font/devut
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:51:49PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> I expect I'd switch the Debian packaging over to git once there's an
> upstream tree to base it on.
Money, putting where mouth is, etc.:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/cjwatson/groff.git
The recent history is probably s
Werner LEMBERG :
> Umm, this blog entry is two years old. There is still some activity
> on the bzr side, AFAICS – for example, version 2.6.0 has been released
> in August 2013.
Indeed. But I've seen more recent comments on the retrospective implying
that the project is barely ticking over, and
> I have learned recently that the bzr project is stalled out and
> disintegrating. One of its senior devs has written a very
> interesting elegy to it:
>
> http://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html
Umm, this blog entry is two years old. There is still some activity
on t
> there seems to be a typo in the texinfo file for the current version
> of groff. In my opinion "-Tdef" should rather read "-Tdev".
Applied to git repository, thanks.
Werner
Colin Watson :
> > You say you're happy with bzr's UI. Does it not seem to you that bzr is
> > deeply confused about what its unit of work is? I tried learning bzr
> > in order to work on Emacs and found that the distinction between repos
> > and detached branches made my head hurt a lot.
>
>
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