On 11/8/18, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Is it possible to configure bug-groff to autorespond to any email
>> that doesn't come from the Savannah bug tracker, telling the sender
>> that the tracker is the preferred place to report groff bugs?
>
> Probably yes. Dave, do you want to become admistrator
Hi Branden,
> The Version 7 Unix pages are a wonderful thing but they are not the
> final word on current or best practice.
They show that OPTIONS was not in 7th Ed.'s section 1, despite some
commands, like ls(1) having many options.
> Implement the system documented there and you'll be rooted i
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> Can you try and spend time halving the amount you write, otherwise I
> suspect the length puts off other contributors. :-)
When I don my editor's hat, I agree with Ralph. However, as a
contributor to and avid reader of the list, I ha
At 2018-11-12T14:59:45+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
Hi Ralph!
> Can you try and spend time halving the amount you write, otherwise I
> suspect the length puts off other contributors. :-)
I favor brevity, when manageable. A defense brief is a challenge. I'll
try to be terser here.
Hi Branden,
Can you try and spend time halving the amount you write, otherwise I
suspect the length puts off other contributors. :-)
> > OPTIONS is not a standard section, not at all:
I agree with Ingo.
> In the absence of a standard, for man(7) we must look to common
> practice.
>
> On my Deb
At 2018-11-12T07:23:04+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:57:41PM -0500:
>
> > commit 75205acd4f5c7586199e7b19fa61971fd3b31e19
> > Author: G. Branden Robinson
> > Date: Tue Nov 6 12:43:12 2018 -0500
> >
> > grn(1): Make option
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 07:22:47AM -0500:
> Do you think it might be worth capturing any of that in the groff tree
> somewhere? Even if only as comments in mdoc's tmac files?
I think it might make sense to:
- Mark .Ux as deprecated in groff_mdoc(7).
- Fo
At 2018-11-12T06:19:40+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Branden,
[much juicy historical information about mdoc snipped]
> I think with respect to mdoc, you made the right decisions.
Hi Ingo!
Thanks very much for that detailed analysis. Your knowledge of the
history, implementation, and corpus o
