Re: [Wishlist] Don't discard groff comments on HTML output

2022-01-27 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hello T. Kurt, On 1/27/22 16:18, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > And troff comments appearing in html output as html comments is > something I explicitly DON’T want happening.  My comments are NOT > intended to be part of the finished document in any form. Sounds perfecty reasonable. So, if this is added,

Re: [Wishlist] Don't discard groff comments on HTML output

2022-01-27 Thread Thomas Dupond
T. Kurt Bond wrote: > And troff comments appearing in html output as html comments is something I > explicitly DON’T want happening. My comments are NOT intended to be part > of the finished document in any form. I second this feeling. I'm new to this but to me groff output is supposed to be a

Re: [Wishlist] Don't discard groff comments on HTML output

2022-01-27 Thread T. Kurt Bond
x, > > At 2022-01-24T22:48:29+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi Branden, > > > > I'd like to see groff comments preserved in the HTML output (as HTML > > comments). > > > > So, for `groff -T html ...`, > > > > .\" hello world > >

Re: [Wishlist] Don't discard groff comments on HTML output

2022-01-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2022-01-24T22:48:29+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden, > > I'd like to see groff comments preserved in the HTML output (as HTML > comments). > > So, for `groff -T html ...`, > > .\" hello world > > would be transformed to

[Wishlist] Don't discard groff comments on HTML output

2022-01-24 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, I'd like to see groff comments preserved in the HTML output (as HTML comments). So, for `groff -T html ...`, .\" hello world would be transformed to Sounds good? Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-p

Re: [groff] Comments about the bug report #42675 (long)

2018-12-02 Thread John Gardner
I just finished reading all 9,535 bytes of Bjarni's e-mail, and I still don't have a single idea what he's talking baout... =( On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 at 13:10, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Title: \} considered as macro argument regarding register .$ > > > The reported bug (#42675) is a panic o

[groff] Comments about the bug report #42675 (long)

2018-02-21 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Title: \} considered as macro argument regarding register .$ The reported bug (#42675) is a panic one. (Later I checked the whole earlier "discussion" on the "groff" list. The whole shows me such a lack of thinking; it is just reacting and "don't think about it, neither before and especiall

Re: [Groff] comments

2015-06-30 Thread Damian McGuckin
Hi Carsten, To where should I send my examples. Is just an attachment OK. The TGZ file with raw text and postscript output is 30K. Also, my line 2086 in m.tmac says .ds@set-new-ev \\n[ds*old-ll] which is from contrib in 1.22.3. Looking at your diffs, it seems you have replaced thi

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-14 Thread Anton Shepelev
Tadziu Hoffmann: > Note the "dot" version of the comment in the last > example. Thank you very much! Anton

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jul-11 22:02:14, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > >> It also works (in Anton's example) without the dot, as in: > [snip] >> . if (2=2) \{\"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17 > [snip] >> . if (2=2) \{\ >> \"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17 > [snip] >> . if (2=2

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
Erratum: The ".}" in my previous message should have read ".\}" (shouldn't copy-paste stuff that has errors...).

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> It also works (in Anton's example) without the dot, as in: [snip] > . if (2=2) \{\"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17 [snip] > . if (2=2) \{\ > \"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17 [snip] > . if (2=2) \{ > \"Remove this comment including the space in col. 17

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > I have come across a very strage situation in which > > the behaviour of groff seems to depend on: > > > > a. whether it happens in a diversion or not and > > b. the presence of a comment. > > Multiline conditionals are a bit tricky. > The following conditionals should work: Forgot thi

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jul-11 21:07:22, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > >> I have come across a very strage situation in which >> the behaviour of groff seems to depend on: >> >> a. whether it happens in a diversion or not and >> b. the presence of a comment. > > > Multiline conditionals are a bit tricky. > The

Re: [Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I have come across a very strage situation in which > the behaviour of groff seems to depend on: > > a. whether it happens in a diversion or not and > b. the presence of a comment. Multiline conditionals are a bit tricky. The following conditionals should work: .if condition stuff

[Groff] Comments affecting groff output?

2011-07-13 Thread Anton
Hello all, I have come across a very strage situation in which the behaviour of groff seems to depend on: a. whether it happens in a diversion or not and b. the presence of a comment. In the example below it is demonstrated using the .tm request: ---

Re: [Groff] comments in non-fill mode

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:50:04AM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote: > Hi! > > It appears that comments are "counted" in non-fill mode. Is this by > design for some reason? > > 8<---8<--- > .nf > text text text text text text text > \".ps 14 > \".vs 15 > \"\v'-3.05'TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT > \

[Groff] comments in non-fill mode

2008-09-03 Thread Louis Guillaume
Hi! It appears that comments are "counted" in non-fill mode. Is this by design for some reason? 8<---8<--- .nf text text text text text text text \".ps 14 \".vs 15 \"\v'-3.05'TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT \"\v'-3.05'\n[year]\(bu\n[mo]\(bu\n[dy] TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT \n[year]\(bu\n[mo]\(bu\n[dy

Re: [Groff] comments

2006-01-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > While I fully agree that groff's source code files should have > > much more comments, I'm not really happy with the layout you > > provide in your patch. James Clark's code has a certain > > compactness which I would like to retain > > Personal preferences about style obviously differ. Thank

Re: [Groff] comments

2006-01-26 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Werner, > While I fully agree that groff's source code files should have much > more comments, I'm not really happy with the layout you provide in > your patch. James Clark's code has a certain compactness which I > would like to retain Personal preferences about style obviously differ. Th

Re: [Groff] comments

2006-01-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> For the first step, the support of all Unicode characters without > huge data tables, I intend to submit modifications to the following > files: Thanks! While I fully agree that groff's source code files should have much more comments, I'm not really happy with the layout you provide in your p

[Groff] comments

2006-01-23 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, For the first step, the support of all Unicode characters without huge data tables, I intend to submit modifications to the following files: font.h, font.cpp, nametoindex.cpp, troff/input.cpp, post-html.cpp. Since most files are without comments and since it takes me about 10 or 50 times