On 8/1/22 00:55, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Yes, distributors that incorporate packages with man pages using the new
`MR` macro, racing ahead of those same distributors' update of groff
1.23.0 (whenever that happens), run the risk of some unhappy man page
readers.
As i explained earlier, people do
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 07:37:54AM -0500:
> At 2022-06-19T19:28:26+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Given that the base system corpora of FreeBSD and NetBSD are of the
>> same order of magnitude as in OpenBSD (and treating DragonFly as a
>> FreeBSD fork for now,
Hi Ingo,
At 2022-07-31T20:02:52+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:05:55AM -0500:
>
> > I added fallbacks in tty.char for \[fm] and \[sd] (both CSTR #54
> > glyphs) in May 2021. I seem to remember that Ingo followed suit
> > at least for the latter
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 02:21:49AM -0500:
> At 2022-06-27T00:29:08+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> The first issue i identified is a group of regressions in the
>> behaviour of the mdoc(7) prologue macros .Dt and .Os.
>> The regressions aren't particularly seve
Hi Branden,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:05:55AM -0500:
> I added fallbacks in tty.char for \[fm] and \[sd] (both CSTR #54
> glyphs) in May 2021. I seem to remember that Ingo followed suit
> at least for the latter in mdoc.
mandoc renders as follows:
input:\(fm
-T a
Hi Mike,
At 2022-07-31T11:54:13-0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> I come into this very late and without having studied the on-going
> discussion. For this I apologize.
>
> > However, since many manual pages in existence are incorrect, and
> > they use '-' >>> when they should use '\-' <<< ...
>
> L
I come into this very late and without having studied the on-going discussion.
For this I apologize.
> However, since many manual pages in existence are incorrect, and they
> use '-' >>> when they should use '\-' <<< ...
Let me take exception to the claim that '-' should be '\-' .
In manu
On 2022/07/31 02:04 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 7/31/22 13:49, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:
> > Hi Alejandro,
> >
> > On 2022/07/31 12:35 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > The template page 'manpage.1.ex' uses '-' instead of '\-' for a
> > > dash that should be a Latin minus sign (a
Hi Ingo,
On 7/31/22 14:20, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:45:42PM +0200:
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to have a constant '.so
man-pages-colophon.man' line at the end of all of the Linux man-pages,
instead of appending a COLOPHON
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:45:42PM +0200:
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to have a constant '.so
> man-pages-colophon.man' line at the end of all of the Linux man-pages,
> instead of appending a COLOPHON at every release. The
> man-pages-colopho
Hi Baptiste,
On 7/31/22 13:49, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:
Hi Alejandro,
On 2022/07/31 12:35 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
The template page 'manpage.1.ex' uses '-' instead of '\-' for a
dash that should be a Latin minus sign (as it's in the context of
command options). Using '-' would produce a
Deri writes:
I wrote a script to turn the html documentation into a mom
document. The html
version is not intended to be structured as a book so the
resulting
pdf is
just a bunch of chapters. Also, since the conversion is done by
an an
algorithm, choices of page breaks is arbitrary and no
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