Hi Branden! On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 07:01:45AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-04-14T13:41:24+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Another thing I want to do, as mentioned in the groff bug, is to > > remove our an.tmac. Is there any change we can use a minimal > > definition that we can cat(1) to the system an.tmac? Or maybe instead > > of cat(1)ing it, tell groff(1) to use our definition in addition to > > -man. > > Deri had been using the cover page document to append to man(7) macros > definitions, which basically accomplished this. > > I've since refactored everything that hyperlinked book generation needed > in that respect into groff's "an.tmac" (in Git), leaving the cover page > to do only cover page things. > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/GMPfront.t.in Hmmm. I notice that your cover page has a few things that we have as part of the prepare.pl script: <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/GMPfront.t.in#n7> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/GMPfront.t.in#n42> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/share/mk/build/pdf/book/prepare.pl#n86> Maybe we could do the same, to reduce the work of prepare.pl? Our front page is also clean from an.tmac stuff. We have the an.tmac fork here: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/share/mk/build/pdf/book/an.tmac> And the front page is: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/share/mk/build/pdf/book/front.roff> However, our an.tmac is not for appending, but for replacing man(7). :( I'd like to get rid of that an.tmac fork. Does your message mean that if I use groff git HEAD to build our book I can just drop the fork and use man(7), and groff(1) will do the right thing? Also, what does .t mean (in GMPfront.t.in)? I changed the file extension to .roff (so, <front.roff>) in the Linux man-pages, as it's just a roff(7) file. Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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