Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-12-10T23:24:50+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Hi Brandent, > > On Sun, Dec 09 2018 at 06:50:32 PM, "G. Branden Robinson" > wrote: > > At 2018-12-10T00:43:39+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > [...] > >> hmm... the patch does not apply for me (I'm on master > >> 92f40b186aa2adda8039fff0

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-10 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Brandent, On Sun, Dec 09 2018 at 06:50:32 PM, "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > At 2018-12-10T00:43:39+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: [...] >> hmm... the patch does not apply for me (I'm on master >> 92f40b186aa2adda8039fff09c1246bdd30dbd3d). > > It follows 3 of the other patches I have pending

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

2018-12-10 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Mon, Dec 10 2018 at 01:58:56 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: [...] > My first impulse was to say "presumably, at some time in the (possibly > remote) past, systems existed where libm provided a viable implementation > of hypot(), but failed to declare it. Your propsed direction > might bre

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

2018-12-10 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Ingo, On Sun, Dec 09 2018 at 02:32:00 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:36:25AM +: >> The time-honoured way to achieve this is using the built-in `set'. >> >> $ l='foo bar xyzzy' >> $ set -- $l; for f; do echo f=$f; done | fmt >> f=foo

Re: [groff] 01/01: Remove erroneous "revised by" attribution.

2018-12-10 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, thanks for fixing that. Actually, how that error got introduced is quite interesting. The erroneous attribution was added in commit 1a0ea2d7 on Sep 20 00:35:44 2014 +0200 with this commit message: all man-pages in groff source tree: use \[aq], \[oq], \[cq], \[co] and this ChangeLog

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-10 Thread Doug McIlroy
> Bash is a complex program, and the length of the manpage is > entirely adequate. It's adequate in the sense of being quite complete and accurate. It's also verbose. The introductory paragraph is laudably crisp. But right after that comes -cIf the -c option is present, then commands are

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

2018-12-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20181209133200.gc7...@athene.usta.de>: .. |Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:36:25AM +: .. |> The time-honoured way to achieve this is using the built-in `set'. |> |> $ l='foo bar xyzzy' |> $ set -- $l; for f; do echo f=$f; done | fmt |>

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-10 Thread Dave Kemper
On 12/7/18, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > What the user finds on the Web may not even correspond to the version > of the software that is actually installed. Lilypond addresses this by keeping documentation for all past released versions on the web, with the version number as part of the URL. Whatever v

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

2018-12-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Bjarni, > > > > . pso sh -c \ > > > > "printf '%s' '.ds *f ' ; \ > > > > ls \\*[fontpath]/dev\*[.T] \ > > > > -| tr '[:cntrl:]' '[ *32]'" > > > > +| tr 'n' ' '" > > > > . \" This dummy line is necessary; the preceding line eats it. ... > cd \\*[fontpa