On 12/21/20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I thought you and I worked to fix this earlier this year?
We did do some work in this section, but I don't recall addressing
this terminology in particular. At the time, it seemed pretty small
potatoes.
Taken as a whole, I believe the section is perfect
Hello fellow groffers,
As a consumer , archiver of pdf documents, image files and others. I'm
confronted with all that goes wrong when trying to keep systemdates of file
synced and keep the same as the original creation date. I've had so many
issues with systemdates that or wrongly set , or a webd
At 2020-12-21T17:07:10-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 12/20/20, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Perhaps I should have been more verbose and written: According
> > to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and
> > SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger
> > th
Hi Ingo!
At 2020-12-20T17:16:38+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:54AM -0500:
> > commit ca0dfa5ff724eaf21a8b79f4ee825979ef3294fc
> > Author: G. Branden Robinson
> > AuthorDate: Sun Dec 20 14:10:09 2020 +1100
> >
> > groff_mdoc(7): Add link
Hi Ingo!
At 2020-12-20T17:08:22+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:54AM -0500:
> > groff_mdoc(7): Document .Lk and .Mt macros.
[...]
> > .It Li .Lk
> > -To be written.
> > +Embed hyperlink.
> > +.
> > +.
> > +.Pp
> > +.Dl Usage: .Lk Ao url lin
Hi Ingo!
At 2020-12-20T16:38:05+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:38:56AM -0500:
> > * tmac/doc.tmac-u (Mt): Emit a usage diagnostic and return if
> > called with no arguments. This introduces an incompatiblility
> > with mandoc(1),
At 2020-12-20T22:44:09-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 12/20/20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2020-12-16T20:30:33-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> >> Ubuntu is a Debian-derived distro, and the concurrent "local timezone"
> >> thread here points out Debian's proclivity to customize groff in
> >> incom
At 2020-12-21T23:33:18+, Deri wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:10:25 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 2. Switch output of date comments embedded by output drivers off by
> > default, and add a common option to reënable them. Document this in
> > NEWS.
> > 3a. Add a device-ind
> According to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and
> SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger
> than WS, it effectively disables sentence spacing
A careful reading reveals that the second argument of .ss is *extra*
spacing, so
the default is
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> For those who have not read it yet: the original
>
> http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
>
> has unfortunately vanished, but I have saved a copy:
>
> http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/typographyspacing.pdf
Thank you! I hadn'
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, Steve Ross via wrote:
>> In the resulting PDF output file, the ellipsis appears on page 10,
>> as expected. However, on the same line, about six characters
>> further to the right, I also see about three characters being
>> over-struck, which is unexpected.
>>
>> I have a
On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:24:15 GMT Dave Kemper wrote:
> Are there cases where the timestamp within the file would differ from
> the timestamp *of* the file? This typically happens when a file is
> edited after it's created -- which could be common with HTML output,
> but would seem to be ra
On 12/21/20, Deri wrote:
> Consider the case where multiple -Z produced groff files,
> produced at different times, are combined into one gropdf run. The only
> sensible time to include
> in the meta-data is the time the pdf was created, why lose potentially
> useful information?
If you need to k
> [...] at least it felt like I was being individually targeted,
> so I promptly wilted. I mean of course the famous
>
> https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never-ever-do-it.html
For those who have not read it yet: the original
http://www.heraclitean
On Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:10:25 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> 2. Switch output of date comments embedded by output drivers off by
> default, and add a common option to reënable them. Document this in
> NEWS.
> 3a. Add a device-independent output command, something like "x
> ti
On 12/20/20, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Perhaps I should have been more verbose and written: According
> to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and
> SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger
> than WS, it effectively disables sentence spacing.
Unfortun
On 12/20/20, Dorai Sitaram via wrote:
> It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two
> Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in the
> media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period".
As a general rule, you can gauge how seriously to
On 12/20/20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Thoughts from anyone reading?
I concur with all points of this plan.
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