Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-23T01:08:18+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Thank you; I appreciate the review. Yours is the first it's gotten
since I rewrote it.
> [
>spaces, or tabs. (AT&T tbl accepted only options with
>
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-23T01:47:40+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/23/22 00:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > No indeed. My Logitech thumb-operated trackball hates me, as does
> > the company--they don't even sell a corded version anymore. Due to
> > some diabolical collusion with the alkali
That tarball is not how it should be done, it unpacks in . Should
unpack in learn/
Just a FYI.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:43:37PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> On 7/22/22 23:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> >At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> >>Also, now
Hi Branden,
On 7/23/22 00:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[dropped наб from CC list; added groff@]
At 2022-07-22T12:57:53+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
You answered all that I thought you would, and even more. As always,
you surprise me with great knowledge that I didn't even know
On 7/17/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm having trouble thinking of single other example that needs
> to operate at the level of the formatter as this one does.
Hmm... does the USER care what level it's operating at? Should the
user interface for this low-level diagnostic look basically like
Hi Branden,
I'm reading tbl(1), so I'll report a few (minor issues) I found:
Within:
[
Region options
The line immediately following the .TS token may specify
region options: keywords that influence the interpreta‐
tion or rendering of the region as a whole or all t
[dropped наб from CC list; added groff@]
At 2022-07-22T12:57:53+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> You answered all that I thought you would, and even more. As always,
> you surprise me with great knowledge that I didn't even know I could
> ask for, and that's the main reason I tend to
Hi Branden,
On 7/22/22 21:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T13:46:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your
comment that other languages may find it difficult to
Hi Branden,
On 7/22/22 23:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Also, now that we speak about these things... I've always wondered
what happened to learn(1). It's a program mentioned[1] in UNIX for
Beginners [2nd ed.; K.], that doesn't seem to ex
The root problem seems to be that troff is sort of wishy-washy about
the distinction between underlining and italics, regarding one as a
fallback for the other rather than the two as distinct operations.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57462 seeks to address this, though no
one has yet volunteered to
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T20:31:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/22/22 14:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > intro(x) pages are sorely neglected these days, a sad situation.
> >
> > A couple of years ago someone on this list proposed a revised
> > intro(1), which people on this list found to
Hi Alex,
At 2022-07-22T13:46:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your
> > comment that other languages may find it difficult to mirror our use
> > of subsections, since their main
Hi Branden, Doug,
On 7/22/22 14:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Doug,
At 2022-07-22T07:36:03-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
futile an effort as English spelling reform.
I love a challenge.
Doing it for groff-related man
Reported-by: "G. Branden Robinson"
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar
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Hi all!
As hinted in recent mails to groff@ and linux-man@,
I'm going to inaugurate a new [sub]section for constants.
I think it should contain constants, normally represented by
object-like macros in C. But it should als
Hi,
Colin Watson wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 01:22:57AM +0100:
> man-db doesn't index on the .TH section at all, and I don't believe
> I've encountered the practice of doing so in other indexers
> (I could be wrong, but I think that's something I would have
> remembered if I'd noticed it).
FWI
Hi Doug,
At 2022-07-22T07:36:03-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
> futile an effort as English spelling reform.
I love a challenge.
> Doing it for groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff as
> quirky.
True, but on
Hi,
On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your comment
that other languages may find it difficult to mirror our use of
subsections, since their main section is already a subsection (e.g.,
3pl). I'd say that since C i
Changing the .TH case convention throughout the Unix world is about as
futile an effort as English spelling reform. Doing it for
groff-related man pages only would simply brand groff as quirky.
At least the current convention has the virtue of simplicity. A
convention of matching the case of comma
On 7/22/22 04:14, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At least, _Exit(2) and _exit(2) point to the same page. nan(3) and
NAN(3) don't, though!
Pretty gross. A useful counterexample of good practice, though.
We can't blame the writers, since the identifiers have those names in
C. Luckily, man(1)
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