Re: On computerese

2024-09-15 Thread Frederic Chartier via
On 2024-09-14 22:03 -0400, Kusoneko wrote: > Sep 14, 2024 20:39:44 hoh...@posteo.de: > > BTW, what's that: 'computerese'? > > I'd add that I personally find it a bit hypocritical as most > fields have their own technical terms, even the academic ones, > and yet, only the computer terms seem to be g

Re: [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.)

2024-05-28 Thread Frederic Chartier via
On 2024-05-20 09:00 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > For grins, and for a data point from elsewhere in GNU-land, GNU troff is > pretty robust to this sort of thing. Much as I might like to boast of > having improved it in this area, it appears to have already come with > iron long johns courte

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-18 Thread Frederic Chartier via
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