On Monday, 21 August 2023 23:02:35 BST Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Deri, > > On 2023-08-21 01:39, Deri wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > I have created the tar files again with the latest sort. > > > > Both are intended to be used with groff 1.23.0, but the plus version > > includes the latest gropdf, so produces more compact output. It also has > > the narrower gap between the heading on the intro(1) page, I have not > > investigated the reason yet! > > > > Also I have a small bone to pick with your "official" sort order - it's > > not > > consistent. Most people expect a short word like "cat" to appear before a > > word like "catatonic", and we see "hosts" does appear before > > "hosts.equiv", so why does "man" come after "man-pages"! I've also > > strayed from the official sort order in the 6.05.01 pdf by arranging the > > latin and iso character code pages in proper numerical order so "latin10" > > comes after "latin9" rather than following "latin1". I hope this makes > > sense. > > Is "official" the Book for 6.5.1? Or is it the scripts/sortman in git HEAD? Hi Alex, I have not a clue, at different times it seems to change! I've had various diffs from Brian. I think he wanted me to use rpmvercmp for sorting, seemed a bit overkill. You've got a script called sortman, which I don't use, but I suppose is part of your work when you retire my script and replace it with your own. So I don't think I'm the person to ask. Cheers Deri > I've found that scripts/sortman had this problem that you report, and fixed > it: > > Is this order a good one? Should maybe cat_alike go right after cat? > > Cheers, > Alex > > [Hopefully, this email should already be signed; I've recovered my keys.]
