groff 1.24 schedule update with respect to Debian Trixie (was: gnulib and the git submodule blues)

2025-02-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-27T16:32:03-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-01-27T17:46:14+, Colin Watson wrote: > > It should be a matter of removing .gitmodules and instead setting > > GNULIB_REVISION in bootstrap.conf to refer to the desired Gnulib > > commit ID. You can then change that with ordinar

mdoc style (was man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?)

2025-02-07 Thread onf
Hello Ingo, On Fri Jan 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM CET, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > onf wrote on Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 12:59:03PM +0100: > > On Fri Jan 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM CET, Alexis wrote: > > >> (My first port was of the documentation for the s6 package, and > >> unfortunately, my learning-on-the-fly shows.

Re: Floating vertical displacement for titles

2025-02-07 Thread onf
Hi Walter, On Fri Feb 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM CET, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > [...] > Titles and subtitles (I'm referring to those in the body of the > document, not those in the header and footer) look better when they have > more space above than below. I've recently been studying how to ach

Floating vertical displacement for titles

2025-02-07 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hello guys, There is something I can't figure out how to do it. Titles and subtitles (I'm referring to those in the body of the document, not those in the header and footer) look better when they have more space above than below. I've recently been studying how to achieve this without altering t

Rationale behind sizescale / scaled points

2025-02-07 Thread onf
Hi all, I've been wondering lately about the rationale behind solving the problem of font sizes being integer-only by adding scaled points. Specifically, I can't help but feel like extending troff to represent font sizes everywhere (except the .s register) in basic units would be a much more stra

Re: a multilingual hyphenation challenge

2025-02-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-06T23:23:57-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM Tadziu Hoffmann > wrote: > > Given that so many attributes (for example, the hyphenation > > mode) are in fact associated with the environment, I just > > found it surprising that this isn't, (and the info file > > do