which color repertoire should be the default? (was: true/direct color support for grotty)

Hi Deri, At 2025-06-06T00:08:38+0100, Deri wrote: > I have been comparing HTML and X colour names, results attached as a > pdf (and a text version which should be piped through "less -R" to see > the colours). Neat! I can image the groff document you might have used to compose it, though I wonde

removing features from groff? (was: true/direct color support for grotty)

Hi Robert, At 2025-06-06T09:49:16+1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: > At the risk of poking my bib in again, I would suggest that there is a > plethora of lists of colour names. I don't mind your speaking up at all; the sharing of relevant expertise is seldom an intrusion. > Why should groff be restri

Re: Is a paragraph consisting solely of SY/YS empty?

Hello Alejandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 01:16:27AM +0200: > Talking about this, I've now finished my changes, and was trying to > pass the usual linters. mandoc(1) is complaining: > > alx@devuan:~/tmp$ cat pp.man > .TH A 7 2025-06-06 f > .SH g >

Re: true/direct color support for grotty

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025, Robert Thorsby wrote: By all means hold the hands of the authors of man pages, as they seem surely to need hand holding, but please do not cripple groff to do so. Seconded - Damian

Re: true/direct color support for grotty

At the risk of poking my bib in again, I would suggest that there is a plethora of lists of colour names. Why should groff be restricted to a small subset when it currently has the power to describe any colour? As a starting point, try looking at ImageMagick. Might I respectfully remind the me

Is a paragraph consisting solely of SY/YS empty?

Hi Ingo, On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 08:35:48PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > * .P is not used in its semantical function here (there is no > >paragraph of text), but abused as a presentational hack > >to insert vertical spacing, similar to the .sp request, > >which means that .SY f

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

On Wednesday, 4 June 2025 15:04:52 BST Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2025 03 Jun 22:09 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think "yes", and I'd go further; since we have only one set of > > predefined color names, they're all in the same color space (RGB), and > > they all have the same origin (t

Re: [man BUG] SY/YS doesn't break the line before the first cmd arg

Hi Alex, At 2025-06-05T16:04:17+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I met a bug in SY/YS. Here's a reproducer: > > alx@devuan:~/tmp$ cat syys.man > .TH a s d f > .SH g > .SY foo > bar > .YS . > .SY fooo > br > ba

[man BUG] SY/YS doesn't break the line before the first cmd arg

Hi Branden, I met a bug in SY/YS. Here's a reproducer: alx@devuan:~/tmp$ cat syys.man .TH a s d f .SH g .SY foo bar .YS . .SY fooo br bz qe zx