Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-12-06T18:44:18+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Improve shell script portability in the hdtbl fonts examples. Thanks for catching and fixing this! > 1. POSIX requires "echo -n" to print "-n" followed by >a newline character, so use printf(1) instead. > 2. According to POSI

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Deri, Deri wrote on Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 12:09:20AM +: > I only have access to intel or arm. Please can you test changing > line 2428 to:- > > my $sl=unpack('L>',$hdr); > > I.E. Adding the ">" symbol. With 'L>', the problem remains unchanged. I guess that is due to the fa

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-06 Thread Peter Schaffter
Bertrand -- On Thu, Dec 06, 2018, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > As the html doc is de facto the current reference doc for mom (again, > I'm not arguing whether it's good or bad), I think the paragraph "4.6 > mom" in groff documentation should be modified. Changed entry per your request: diff --git

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:45:31 GMT Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Deri, hi Bertrand, > > i found out more about why the mom test is failing on Solaris 11. > It turns out not just the test is broken, but there is likely a > portability issue in gropdf(1). > > I see this in the build log: > >

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bertrand, Bertrand Garrigues wrote on Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:47:46PM +0100: > On Thu, Dec 06 2018 at 09:45:31 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> i found out more about why the mom test is failing on Solaris 11. >> It turns out not just the test is broken, but there is likely a >> portability issue

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Thu, Dec 06 2018 at 09:45:31 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > i found out more about why the mom test is failing on Solaris 11. > It turns out not just the test is broken, but there is likely a > portability issue in gropdf(1). > > I see this in the build log: > > GROFFcontrib/mom/e

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Thu, Dec 06 2018 at 06:44:18 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Bertrand, > > i finally figured out the hdtbl failure on Solaris. > The mom test is still failing, though. > > OK to push the patch below, before release? > I see no regression on OpenBSD, and no regression on Debian. No regr

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Deri, hi Bertrand, i found out more about why the mom test is failing on Solaris 11. It turns out not just the test is broken, but there is likely a portability issue in gropdf(1). I see this in the build log: GROFFcontrib/mom/examples/typesetting.pdf Negative length at /home/schwar

Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

2018-12-06 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bertrand, i finally figured out the hdtbl failure on Solaris. The mom test is still failing, though. OK to push the patch below, before release? I see no regression on OpenBSD, and no regression on Debian. Yours, Ingo commit 9cb6801d5f90a221be6f22df975ef54a00751fef Author: Ingo Schwarze

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:29:36PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > : > The manpage is a reference, not a tutorial. > : Which suggests a solution. Whenever possible include a TUTORIALS section with pointers to such. Which suggests another solution. Establish ma