At 2023-04-01T16:47:25-0700, Mike Fulton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson <
> g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When you're ready to make that shift, be sure to read the
> > "INSTALL.REPO" file in the root of the repository or distribution
> > archive.
> >
>
> Br
Hi Doug,
At 2023-04-01T19:45:19-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon
> in groff_char.7.
This, and phrases like "in the actual version", are regrettable defects
in the groff 1.22.4 version of this man page.
The one in the groff 1.23.0
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [adding Dave to CC; seek your name below for my magical summons]
>
> At 2023-03-31T13:05:09-0700, Mike Fulton wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:57 AM G. Branden Robinson <
> > > As a groff developer, I'
I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon
in groff_char.7. Yes, info groff probably tells me more than I want to
know. Still, I expect the man page to be terse, but intelligible.
What's an "entity"? Fortunately, Dave Kemper's post shed light on
this question.
The first
Hi Dave,
> whereas < and > are pretty common for this and no one will bat an eye
> at those in non-UTF-8 contexts.
‘The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
text documents and protocol fields.