Hi, Branden!
On 2/28/22 14:18, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi, Alex!
>
>> Then, should I report a bug in groff?
>>
>> I could reproduce the incorrect formatted output with
>> GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc1.1931-35c9b
>
> I didn't even see the run-on bold at first; I was looking for
> breaking/spacing problems.
>
> No, groff is behaving correctly as I understand it (and consistently
> with Heirloom Doctools troff--I didn't fire up the PDP-11 simulator for
> this).
>
Ahh, I thought I knew \c. It seems I didn't. I thought it was as
simple as "remove any spaces between this line and the next, but
consider them separate in terms of formatting". But it continues
formatting too.
$ cat c.man
.TH \ec 7 $TODAY alx experiments
.SH NAME
\ec \- experiment
.SH TEST
foo\c
.B bar\c
baz
$ man ./c.man | cat
\c(7) experiments \c(7)
NAME
\c - experiment
TEST
foobarbaz
alx $TODAY \c(7)
"barbaz" is bold. I thought only "bar" would be bold.
>> Okay, I'll fix that.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing a PDF-hyperlinked rendition of the next
> Linux man-pages release, as I've done with the 384-page
> "groff-man-pages.pdf". :)
Might be :)
Maybe you release groff-1.23 before we (I?) release man-pages-next (if
it's me releasing, I may delay it until linux-6.0). If that's the case,
and most distros ship it by that time, I may introduce .MR.
BTW, have you seen the changes I introduced this week? I'd like to know
your opinion about them, if you have one, since there are quite a lot
of them:
$ git shortlog --since 'last week' | wc -l
499
They reduce to 3 kinds of changes:
- Add LIBRARY section. Similar in FreeBSD and NetBSD,
but I used lowercase for everything but the first letter.
- Remove most of the license texts (all except those that don't have a
SPDX license tag), and replace them by the license tag. Add the
licenses to <LICENSES/>.
- Move types out of system_data_types to separate pages, that are
much more manageable. system_data_types(7) was becoming something
huge like queue(3) once was. I also wonder if we should inaugurate
a new subsection of man3 (maybe 3types?).
Regards,
Alex
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
