[dropping Alex from To: header]
Hi Lennart,
At 2024-03-18T21:13:32+, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> I wouldn’t at all be surprised by what I’d call errors in the mandoc
> man pages, as I guess they aren’t tested a whole lot with more general
> troffs and the project calls mdoc not a macro package
Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
There may be some malformedness here complicating matters.
My example of .No Ar is not malformed: The No there is useless,
yes, but that shouldn’t break anything. The warning is a warning
of the uselessness, not a warning of unspecifiedness. I simply
wanted to po
At 2024-03-18T13:00:19-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-03-18T12:56:45-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > It is not a goal of groff to behave identically to mandoc(1) in the
> > face of unspecified input. Is your input specified somewhere? (I
> > don't have the command of mdoc(7) that
At 2024-03-18T12:56:45-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> It is not a goal of groff to behave identically to mandoc(1) in the face
> of unspecified input. Is your input specified somewhere? (I don't have
> the command of mdoc(7) that I do of man(7), and as we've seen, my grasp
> of the latter is
Hi Lennart,
At 2024-03-18T02:08:10+, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> .Dd March 18, 2024
> .Dt EMPTY-CALLED-AR
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
> .Nm empty-called-Ar
> .Nd a groff \-mdoc bug
> .Sh DESCRIPTION
> Empty called Ar:
> .No Ar
> That's it: This text right here shouldn't be oblique.
> .Pp
> I found this in
[self-follow-up; dropping Russ from CC because it's a pretty obscure
point of *roff semantics]
At 2024-03-17T15:52:55-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [6] I've marked `SB` as deprecated in the forthcoming groff 1.24; it
> does nothing that modern formatters can't achieve by combining `SM`
>
Hi Branden,
I'm considering using grohtml(1) in the Linux man-pages, to replace
man2html(1), which crashes on tzfile(5) --which has correct man(7)--.
Currently, I'm running groff(1) as its separate constituents:
$ make build-ps -Wman2/membarrier.2
PRECONV .tmp/man/man2/me
On 2024-03-17 15:52 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> A. GNU roff and Sun troff are, historically, heavyweights in terms of
> users served. Apparently, man page users on these systems have been
> accepting of adjustment ("full justification") for decades.
Perhaps "suffering" would be
