Thanks for your reply.
On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
When "groff" is configured, the variable "PAGE" is (should be) set to
the default paper format for the default printer.
So, when I build groff 1.23.0, I should make sure that PAGE is set to A4.
So the variable "paper
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 10:56:25AM +1000, Damian McGuckin wrote:
>
> When using the -dpaper=a4 option to 'groff' (which is passed to 'gtroff'),
> the manual says to use '-P-pa4' also (which is passed to the backend).
>
> Does 'gtroff' not pass enough papersize information down its pipeline to the
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 03:15:35PM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> This issue is still open and tagged as a blocker for release, however.
> To resolve it we should settle on the time zone semantics of the system
> time retrieved by groff components (the formatter, the output drivers).
> We shou
When using the -dpaper=a4 option to 'groff' (which is passed to 'gtroff'),
the manual says to use '-P-pa4' also (which is passed to the backend).
Does 'gtroff' not pass enough papersize information down its pipeline to
the backend to make that '-P-pa4' redundant?
Thanks - Damian
> Some distributors have overridden this upstream default. As far as I
> know, Debian was the first to do so; Ubuntu inherited it (or perhaps the
> other way around, as the same person has long maintained the groff
> package for both), and then other distributions cargo-culted it into
> their own g
Hi Nate,
At 2023-07-08T18:02:34-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2023 08 Jul 17:22 -0500, Ronan Pigott via wrote:
> > Ok. For now I've decided to export MANROFFOPT="-c" along with MANPAGER.
Shouldn't this be MANROFFOPT="-P -c"?
$ groff --help | head -n 1
usage: groff [-abcCeEgGijklNpRsStUVXzZ]
Hi Ronan,
At 2023-07-08T21:03:03+, Ronan Pigott wrote:
[LESS_TERMCAP_*]
> I wrote:
> > Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having had
> > up to 39 years to document it, apparently the only place the feature is
> > described is on StackExchange.[...]
>
> Indeed, it wen
* On 2023 08 Jul 17:22 -0500, Ronan Pigott via wrote:
> Ok. For now I've decided to export MANROFFOPT="-c" along with MANPAGER.
Thanks for that tip, Ronan. I just updated my Arch VM and Groff 1.23
was installed and bold text was shown as emboldened bright white but
Italics were simply underlined.
>> After updating to 1.23 I can no longer change the color of man pages
>> with LESS_TERMCAP_* vars.
>
> Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having had
> up to 39 years to document it, apparently the only place the feature is
> described is on StackExchange.[1]
Indeed, it
* On 2023 08 Jul 14:56 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Ronan,
>
> At 2023-07-08T08:46:40+, Ronan Pigott wrote:
> > After updating to 1.23 I can no longer change the color of man pages
> > with LESS_TERMCAP_* vars.
>
> Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having
I hate to keep raining on the persistent dream of K-P in groff, but it
fits poorly with troff's basic typesetting model. How will it deal
with line-length changes that pop up in the middle of a paragraph, due
to requests that can come inline or from a macro, perhaps triggered by
a trap? K-P faces
Hi Ronan,
At 2023-07-08T08:46:40+, Ronan Pigott wrote:
> After updating to 1.23 I can no longer change the color of man pages
> with LESS_TERMCAP_* vars.
Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having had
up to 39 years to document it, apparently the only place the featu
Hi Branden,
On mar., mai 23 2023 at 02:15:33 , "G. Branden Robinson"
wrote:
>> > Myself, I wonder if K-P couldn't be implemented above the formatter
>> > itself, using a diversion. We could then put the implementation in
>> > an auxiliary macro package.
[...]
> I'll note that even if K-P can't
Hello Branden,
thank you very much for your helpful emails and detailed analysis!
I came across .output command in NixOS' site.tmac, but did not think
much of it at the time and it certainly eluded me when thinking about
the man-db test failures observed on the PR¹.
It seems the conversation on
Hi groff,
After updating to 1.23 I can no longer change the color of man pages with
LESS_TERMCAP_* vars. It seems like this in an intentional change, and I
understand that it is a bit of a hack. But how can the output of man be
customized post 1.23? Only with GROFF_NO_SGR? Is it planned to depreca
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