Re: mom: add some text to the PROBLEMS file in groff to show how to find code to install a font

2025-06-03 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 4/6/25 16:22, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2025-06-04T16:13:28+1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: ImagMagick might be a good place to start. In the Good Old Days "convert -list font" would yield something worthwhile. Wow! I had never heard of this feature. It dutifully blasted a huge list of fo

Re: mom: add some text to the PROBLEMS file in groff to show how to find code to install a font

2025-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Robert, At 2025-06-04T16:13:28+1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: > ImagMagick might be a good place to start. In the Good Old Days > "convert -list font" would yield something worthwhile. Wow! I had never heard of this feature. It dutifully blasted a huge list of fonts to my terminal window. Appa

Re: mom: add some text to the PROBLEMS file in groff to show how to find code to install a font

2025-06-03 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 4/6/25 15:47, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2025-06-02T22:25:12+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: An indication where to find code that installs fonts should be added to the PROBLEMS file. See bug #58831 and bug #60930. This doesn't really have anything in particular to do with mo

Re: mom: add some text to the PROBLEMS file in groff to show how to find code to install a font

2025-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-06-02T22:25:12+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > An indication where to find code that installs fonts should be added > to the PROBLEMS file. > > See bug #58831 and bug #60930. This doesn't really have anything in particular to do with mom, except insofar as, perhaps, mom's users

Re: true/direct color support for grotty (was: maintainer status (on vacation))

2025-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up to clarify] At 2025-06-03T22:08:31-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I think it's probably better to query the terminal (or the terminal > information database) to find out about its support for colors. > > That in turn would depend on the much-delayed Savannah #63583. > > https

Re: Proposed v2: revised man(7) synopsis macros

2025-06-03 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Ingo, On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 02:49:16PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hello, > > i'm not sure i'm up to date with this discussion, hence i trimmed the > other mailing lists. I had fogotten some parts we had discussed too. Thanks for reminding some. > I think i uttered my doubts that .SY wi

Re: Proposed v2: revised man(7) synopsis macros

2025-06-03 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hello, i'm not sure i'm up to date with this discussion, hence i trimmed the other mailing lists. I think i uttered my doubts that .SY will ever fly in the past. When an overly simplistic approach to a task of considerable complexity is introduced without fully considering the requirements of the

Re: Proposed v2: revised man(7) synopsis macros

2025-06-03 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 04:11:21PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Thanks for giving it some field testing. groff's own man pages aren't > > the best test bed because I've revised nearly all of them so extensively > > that they don't do things I wouldn't anticipate. > > > > > -