Hi Ralph,
On 8/23/22 14:51, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Alejandro,
! groff -Tutf8 -man -ww longline.man |
expand |
grep '^.\{80\}.'
Ahh, I forgot about \{N\}, since I never use it.
Still, the Makefile uses pipefail, so I'm not sure how to make grep(1)
work for this. If it wo
Hi,
The following code (found in regex.7) wants to represent an 'o' with a
'^' on top of it (. Is that code correct? It's working on the PDF
(although it's ugly), but not on the terminal. It was changed by a
commit that changed ^ by \(ha for compatibility, but I'm not sure if
that's correc
The character 'o circumflex' is a part of groff's character set
(groff_char.7). A patch is in the attachment.
From: Alejandro Colomar
Sent: 25/08/2022 19:08
To: groff
Subject: o with ^ on top of it
Hi,
The following code (found in regex.7) wants to
Hi Alex,
At 2022-08-25T21:08:17+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> The following code (found in regex.7) wants to represent an 'o' with a
> '^' on top of it (. Is that code correct?
The exhibit, extracted, is this:
\o'o\(ha'
This means "overstrike the glyphs for 'o' and the 'ha' special
characte
At 2022-08-25T17:43:36-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> This means "overstrike the glyphs for 'o' and the 'ha' special
> character". The 'ha' special character is described variously as a
> caret, circumflex accent, or "hat", and it corresponds to 0x7E in the
> ASCII/ISO 8859/Unicode character s
Hi Branden,
On 8/26/22 00:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[...]
Grrr...I'm just going to put another gigantic rant into a footnote.[2]
The bottom line is that there is no portable solution.
Soo, probably Bjarnii's patch is the simplest thing to do, right? \[^o]
[...]
I'll probably never g
Hi Alex,
At 2022-08-26T01:23:39+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Soo, probably Bjarnii's patch is the simplest thing to do, right? \[^o]
I'd say so. groff and mandoc both seem to support it. Heirloom
Doctools seems not to.
> > I'll probably never get back to Bash.
>
> Did it get patched? :p
Hi Alejandro,
> > $ true | (! grep '^.\{80\}.' 81); echo $?
> >
> > .
> > 1
> > $
>
> May I tell groff(1) (grotty(1)) that the terminal width is 80, no
> matter what it actually is?
grotty(1) does
