On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 07:50:37PM -0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> [dropping Alex from Cc]
>
> On 12/10/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Thanks to TUHS, I can dig back even farther than the dawn of our
> > repository's history (groff 1.02) and gaze upon groff 1.01.[1]
> ...
> > [1]
> > https://minn
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, Wim Stockman wrote:
> I found a small error in the install-font script of Peter Schaffter from
> the mom macros
> Link: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh
>
> The generated internalname is missing a "-" between font family and
> font-style
>
> For instance, for
[dropping Alex from Cc]
On 12/10/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Thanks to TUHS, I can dig back even farther than the dawn of our
> repository's history (groff 1.02) and gaze upon groff 1.01.[1]
...
> [1]
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Net2/usr/src/usr.bin/groff/VERSION
When Er
A nice property of "section" is that it's recursive--applies to any
level of a hierarchy--so you don't have to struggle to keep
level-specific terminology straight.
Doug
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 2:21 PM Alejandro Colomar
wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 12/11/22 20:05, Michael Haardt wrote:
> > I ju
I just checked what is easily available to me:
v7 calls them sections in intro pages, but chapters in man(1) and man(7).
Celerity Computing UNIX (looks like a BSD port) calls them sections in
intro pages and man(7), but chapter in manv(7) (dtroff version of man(7)).
SunOS 4.1.1 calls them sectio
> Admittedly, it's hard to defend my proposal as _necessary_. Especially after
> the world has lived for decades with the ambiguity of having chapters as
> sections and sections also as... sections.
Well, one are the volume sections and the other manpage sections. :)
Originally, Unix documenta
Hi Michael,
On 12/11/22 20:05, Michael Haardt wrote:
I just checked what is easily available to me: >
v7 calls them sections in intro pages, but chapters in man(1) and man(7).
Celerity Computing UNIX (looks like a BSD port) calls them sections in
intro pages and man(7), but chapter in manv(7) (
Hi!
This is a gentle ping about my terminological reforms about manual page
chapters.
Cheers,
Alex
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man:
rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:28:12 +0100
Fr
Hi John,
On 12/10/22 00:42, John Gardner wrote:
Your emails are the reason I know and often use dict(1). Lol.
Branden's e-mails are the reason I consult the Oxford English dictionary far
more often than I'm comfortable admitting. Either I'm learning obscure words I
know I'll never rem
