Re: spaces in file names and before comments

2025-02-24 Thread onf
On Mon Feb 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-24T03:36:28+0100, onf wrote: > > On Mon Feb 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > [...] > > > My lodestar on this point is that we can use C and the shell to create > > > files named with trailing spaces

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-24 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > You're getting into Bjarni territory here. (That's the groff > > community's version of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.) > ... > (I'm sending this to the list rather than privately not because

Re: quality of assistance to *roff users (was: line width and table width)

2025-02-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2025-02-24T04:02:55-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Anyone familiar with the discussions on this list of the > conflation of adjustment and alignment in *roff will understand > why the advice Bjarni offered was bad--it defeats the user's > configuration of th

Re: spaces in file names and before comments

2025-02-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-23T23:34:36-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > At 2025-02-24T03:36:28+0100, onf wrote: > > > I think the point is that such filenames aren't being used, > > > > No, that's not "the point". It's _your_ point, > > Hey, originally