[looping in groff list] Hi Deri, Good to hear from you! At 2024-03-12T18:25:36+0000, Deri wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:15:18 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [looping in groff list] > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > I'm attaching another couple of examples to illustrate this. > > > > Unfortunately, these are not examples of best practice for creating > reference bookmarks. They certainly aren't! I didn't intend them as a demonstration of best practice; they were files from my "experiments" directory, where I have hundreds...uh...1,834 files exercising various aspects of groff. My intent was to share a simple and straightforward demonstration of the point I raised, about 8-bit characters being smugglable from *roff input to device-independent output using the `pdfbookmark` macro as the vehicle. > The problem is the bookmarks are just numbered and if you have a > large document it is easier to give the bookmark a mnemonic instead. > > ========================================================================== > > .\" groff -Kutf8 -Tpdf > .de NmSection > . sp 1i > . ft B > . ds pdfsecnm \\$1 > . shift > . pdfbookmark -T \\*[pdfsecnm] 1 "\\$*" > . nop \\$* > . ft > . sp > .. > .NmSection Intro "\%A naïve attempt at bookmarking" > Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem > accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab > illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, > explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem, quia voluptas sit, aspernatur > aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui ratione > voluptatem sequi nesciunt, neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, > quia dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscivelit, sed quia non-numquam eius > modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat > voluptatem. > .bp > .NmSection Another "Another section" > Return to > .pdfhref L -D Intro -- the first section > or > .pdfhref L -A . -D Another -- the last one I'm pleased to report that this example also works fine to demonstrate PDF bookmarking functionality in groff Git HEAD, despite a recent change I've made to pdf.tmac. What change and why? Let me share a further development of the foregoing example. .\" groff -Kutf8 -Tpdf .de NmSection . sp 1i . ft B . ds pdfsecnm \\$1 . shift . pdfbookmark -T \\*[pdfsecnm] 1 "\\$*" . nop \\$* . ft . sp .. .NmSection \%Wacky\-Intro\:duction "A naïve attempt at bookmarking" Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem, quia voluptas sit, aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt, neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscivelit, sed quia non-numquam eius modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. .bp .NmSection Another "Another section" Return to .pdfhref L -D \%Wacky\-Intro\:duction -- the first section or .pdfhref L -A . -D Another -- the last one In groff 1.22.4, formatting the foregoing with "groff -Tpdf" yields the following. $ /usr/bin/groff -Tpdf /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff >/dev/null troff: /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: '\%' is not allowed in a name troff: /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: bad string definition troff: /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: can't translate character code 239 to special character ':i' in transparent throughput groff 1.23.0 says similar: $ GROFF_ENABLE_TRANSPARENCY_WARNINGS=1 ~/groff-stable/bin/groff -Tpdf /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff >/dev/null troff:/tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: error: an escaped '%' is not allowed in an identifier troff:/tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: error: bad string definition troff:/tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: error: can't translate character code 239 to special character ':i' in transparent throughput But now in groff Git HEAD: $ GROFF_ENABLE_TRANSPARENCY_WARNINGS=1 ~/groff-HEAD/bin/groff -Tpdf /tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff >/dev/null troff:/tmp/branden/naive-gbr2-latin1.groff:12: error: can't translate character code 239 to special character ':i' in transparent throughput ...and the hyperlinks even still work! The tolerance for Latin-1 smuggling continues but is, however, something I plan to change as noted earlier in the thread. And at long last I feel I understand what that incomprehensible diagnostic message needs to say. It's been a long time coming--something like six years... Regards, Branden
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