At 2019-02-20T20:06:17+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after reviewing all feedback, i come to the conclusion that there is no
> consensus for the change:
>
> OPPOSED: Mike Bianchi, Tadziu Hoffmann
> SCEPTICAL: Ralph Corderoy
> NO EXPLICIT PREFERENCE STATED: Doug McIlroy, Werner Lemberg
>
> On Feb 19, 2019, at 6:37 PM, Bertrand Garrigues
> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Tue, Feb 19 2019 at 10:58:17 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
>>
>> It's likely that this is a bug in the Homebrew formula: you can confirm
>> this by looking for "URW fonts for pdf" in the configure output (it
>> should
Hi,
after reviewing all feedback, i come to the conclusion that there is no
consensus for the change:
OPPOSED: Mike Bianchi, Tadziu Hoffmann
SCEPTICAL: Ralph Corderoy
NO EXPLICIT PREFERENCE STATED: Doug McIlroy, Werner Lemberg
APPEAR TO NOT OBJECT: Dave Kemper, Jason McIntyre
IN FAVOUR: Anth
On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:52:23 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> An Ubuntu package search at https://packages.ubuntu.com/ says two
> packages provide a010013l.pfb.
>
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/a010013l.pfb gsfonts-x11
> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010013l.pfb gsfonts
The de
Hi Ralph,
i do not disagree with anything you are saying in the following
mail, and did not intend to say anything contradicting the points
you clarify, i merely aimed for being shorter and tried to refrain
from talking about closing quotes at all because there is no
contention with respect to the
Hi Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:23:00PM +:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Somebody (i think Ralph) wrote:
>>> Due to some, all?, man renderers trying to keep a shell backquote as
>>> a paste-able backquote, for example.
>>>
>>> .\" For UTF-8, map some characters cons
Hi Tadziu,
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote on Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 06:44:09PM +0100:
> Somebody wrote:
>> Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Somebody wrote:
ISO 646 removed the ambiguity by assigning the neutral apostrophe
to 27h and the grave accent to 60h, but strictly, it isn't "ASCII."
>>> So why d
Hi John,
John Gardner wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:39:14PM +1100:
> Uhm. Is this issue more of a "would like to have" instead of something
> objectively problematic?
Yes, absolutely. You nail it.
It is not the end of the world either way.
It is merely polishing a minute detail
that occa
Hi,
Bertrand wrote:
> Colin wrote:
> > Richard Morse wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to groff 1.22.4, and suddenly my files are not
> > > turning into PDFs properly. The error is "can't find font NR" (and
> > > "NI").
...
> > > Looking at /usr/local/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf, especially
> > > wh
Hi Doug,
> By contrast, 80 pages contained ` (0x60) used as a left quote, usually
> paired with ' (0x27) but (surprisingly) sometimes with \(aq.
Here, cvs(1) is one page that does that a lot.
$ zgrep -om3 '`.*aq' cvs.1.gz
`Invoking CVS\(aq
`Global options\(aq
`Password authentica
Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 05:01:26PM -0500:
> Someone wrote:
>> people aren't aware that their manpage formatter is
>> catering to a particular font style that is no longer in
>> common use. They just see that man(1) outputs "weird quotes."
> As man pages are now, one
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