Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-22 Thread Robert Bocchino
Hi Steffen, > I have your message also in my queue but it will take quite some > time until i will be able to use your test. > ..I agree with Betrand: it would be better to understand the code > paths as such. I definitely agree, although as I said to Bertrand, I think the first goal should be t

Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-22 Thread Robert Bocchino
Hi Bertrand, On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Are you thinking of unit tests, using a test framework for C++, or more > global tests (using for example shell script) ? I was thinking of system-level tests, at least initially. For example, the grohtml postprocessor oper

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 10:38:40 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > You might also wish to add a sentence like the following to > INSTALL.REPO, right after "1. Initial build", before "First invoke > the bootstrap script:" > > On operating systems supporting concurrent installation of multiple >

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Bernd, On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 08:52:55 PM, "Bernd Warken" wrote: > ### ./test-suite.log: > > FAIL: contrib/gdiffmk/tests/gdiffmk_tests.sh > > /opt/development/groff/git/automake/patched/build/../contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.sh: > 50: > /opt/development/groff/git/automake/patched/build/../co

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So this code in ./bootstrap is suboptimal: > > check_exists() { > ($1 --version /dev/null 2>&1 > > That deliberately hides the error message from the user and displays > a bogus message instead, so you might wish to refrain from hiding > stderr. ... given that `bootstrap' is a ready-to-

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ulrich, On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 05:09:31 PM, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > To make this work on my ubuntu 12.04 LTS „Precise Pangolin“ system I > had to apt-get install autoconf automake libtool texinfo bison flex > > and then to install automake 1.12.2 from source, as the version 1.11.3 > that came

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bertrand, Bertrand Garrigues wrote on Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:14:27PM +0200: > With commit a88127a4fecb307f26f2e217213d4a90e300d220 the automake2 > branch is now ready for more testing from other members of the list. Here are some experiences and suggestions: $ ./bootstrap 2>&1 ./bootst

Re: [Groff] troff sempervivens

2014-09-22 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Sep-2014 19:55:37 Doug McIlroy wrote: > I had reason today to run groff on an eqn|troff -ms input file > dated Aug 2 1979. It took a 1-character change (missing space > in .in0) to make it work! > > Doug Congratulations Doug! (As much for having that file available in the first place, as fo

[Groff] troff sempervivens

2014-09-22 Thread Doug McIlroy
I had reason today to run groff on an eqn|troff -ms input file dated Aug 2 1979. It took a 1-character change (missing space in .in0) to make it work! Doug

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" > > 1) make check > - Could you please send me the content of build/contrib/gdiffmk/tests ? See the added archive test.tgz. # > - What happens if you call manually gdiffmk_tests.sh ? For example like > this: $ abs_top_builddir=/opt/development/groff/git/auto

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-09-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, Peter Schaffter wrote on Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:39:17PM -0400: > Sorry not to get back on this right away. I've been away for a > couple of days--work and computer free! No problem. Unless a software project will be abondoned soon, a few days delay really don't matter. > On Fri, Se

Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-22 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello Robert, Robert Bocchino wrote: |On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: |> I am not qualified to review your patch because I haven't studied |> grohtml's code, but I've tested it on the few .html files that are built |> by default in the 'doc' directory from pic.ms and w

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 01:17:39AM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote: > > I would improve your install commands a bit into: > > test -d old && rm -rf old > test -d groff && mv groff old > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/groff.git > cd groff > git checkout automake2 > ./bootstrap > mkdir build > cd

Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-22 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Robert, On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 01:56:10 AM, Robert Bocchino wrote: > I'm thinking it might be a good idea to start developing a test suite > for grohtml. That would (1) document what grohtml is supposed to do, > including identifying current known bugs, and (2) provide a systematic > way to veri

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-22 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hello Bernd, Thanks for testing! On Mon, Sep 22 2014 at 01:23:56 AM, "Bernd Warken" wrote: >> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" >> Then you can check in the TESTS file for the other targets. Please note >> that compared to the current build system: >> - There are 2 new targets, 'make check' and 'ma

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-22 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Strictly speaking, in PostScript also each page can be a > different size (though there is nothing built-in to groff to > arrange this). This is correct, but because it is not clear what it would mean to include a multi-page document as a graphic, let's simply agree it should not be done. For