The varieties of mdoc experience (was: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline)

2024-03-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-23T00:08:27+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Maybe I should do with grohtml what наб accused me of doing with > > mdoc: > > Any links to that? Sounds like a funny discussion. :D https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65101 I admit that sometimes I enjoy disputation. This was not one of t

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 05:45:14PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-03-22T21:24:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Heh, we're comparing different things. I'm comparing `eqn -Tps` to > > nothing at all, while you're comparing `eqn -Tps` to `eqn -Thtml`. If

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-03-22T21:24:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Heh, we're comparing different things. I'm comparing `eqn -Tps` to > nothing at all, while you're comparing `eqn -Tps` to `eqn -Thtml`. If > I diff the same things you're diffing, then I see the same as you. Ahh. Okay. Yes, I se

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 03:15:11PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-03-22T20:56:28+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > I'm quite surprised that you aren't even getting the warning due to > > `eqn -Thtml`. > > I did. I elided it. I also elided nearly all of my garrulous shell > prompt.

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-22T20:56:28+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I'm quite surprised that you aren't even getting the warning due to > `eqn -Thtml`. I did. I elided it. I also elided nearly all of my garrulous shell prompt. ;-) > I was running > > $ troff --version > GNU troff (groff) vers

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 02:44:26PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-03-22T20:10:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > It reduces the base paragraph inset (did I use the right term? :) to > > almost nothing. > > I have to say I regard this as a pretty minor problem compared

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-03-22T20:10:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Whoops! I passed two different file names at different stages. I > obviously wanted to say this: > > $ preconv man3/_Generic.3 \ > | tbl \ > | troff -man -Thtml -wbreak \ > | post-gr

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 01:53:51PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-03-18T12:38:30+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > I'm considering using grohtml(1) in the Linux man-pages, to replace > > man2html(1), which crashes on tzfile(5) --which has correct man(7)--. >

Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-03-18T12:38:30+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I'm considering using grohtml(1) in the Linux man-pages, to replace > man2html(1), which crashes on tzfile(5) --which has correct man(7)--. Well, all right. Demand may drive improvement to grohtml more reliably than abandonment and

Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

2024-03-18 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, I'm considering using grohtml(1) in the Linux man-pages, to replace man2html(1), which crashes on tzfile(5) --which has correct man(7)--. Currently, I'm running groff(1) as its separate constituents: $ make build-ps -Wman2/membarrier.2 PRECONV .tmp/man/man2/me