At 2023-12-30T22:36:10+, Colin Watson wrote:
> (Branden's other followup to your message seems to mix up man(1) and
> man(7).)
Yup--sorry about that. My preoccupations reveal themselves...
Regards,
Branden
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 10:59:08PM +0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> how can we inform the manpage maintainer for man(1) that groff has
> evolved beyond 1.17?
Please could you report this here so I don't forget about it?
https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
(Branden's other followup to your me
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
>> It should be possible to produce different output depending
>> on the n or t condition.
> groff's soelim(1) page does that.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man?h=1.23.0#n249
Ah! Very nice.
Tim
Hi Oliver,
At 2023-12-28T22:59:08+0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> how can we inform the manpage maintainer for man(1) that groff has
> evolved beyond 1.17?
He knows. When he next does a release, and that release percolates into
the distribution you use, you may get a pleasant surpri
Hi Branden,
how can we inform the manpage maintainer for man(1) that groff has
evolved beyond 1.17?
On my system (a quite fresh installation of Fedora 39)
$ man man
states for the option -T[device]: "Examples (provided with Groff-1.17)
include dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 and X100."
Hey, there
At 2023-12-28T21:47:34+, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> It should be possible to produce different output depending
> on the n or t condition.
groff's soelim(1) page does that.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man?h=1.23.0#n249
Regards,
Branden
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Lennart Jablonka wrote:
>>It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would
>>make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to
>>add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a
>>colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would ad
aackmann writes:
It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That
would
make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be
able to
add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art.
There are already man pages doing that, e.g. ffmpeg(1):
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm
Quoth aackmann:
It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would
make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to
add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a
colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would add \e[0m to
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