Hi Branden,
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 02:51:27PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> You can go ahead and use the second argument to `SY` now--older groffs
> (and other formatters) won't complain about it.[1]
Hmmm. Actually, groff <= 1.23.0 is bad: it doesn't print $2. See
below.
Cheers,
Alex
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ cat foo.man
.TH a s d f
.SH Name
f \- oo
.SH Foo
.SY f (
.B void);
.YS
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ groff --version | head -n1
GNU groff version 1.22.4
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ groff -man -Tutf8 ./foo.man
a(s) a(s)
Name
f - oo
Foo
f void);
f d a(s)
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ dpkg -l mandoc | grep mandoc
ii mandoc 1.14.6-1+b1 amd64 BSD manpage compiler toolset
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ mandoc -man -Tutf8 ./foo.man
a(s) a(s)
Name
f - oo
Foo
f (
void);
f d a(s)
alx@devuan:~/tmp/groff$ ssh www
alx@www:~$ cd /tmp/
alx@www:/tmp$ /usr/bin/groff --version | head -n1
GNU groff version 1.23.0
alx@www:/tmp$ /usr/bin/groff -man -Tutf8 ./foo.man
a(s) a(s)
Name
f - oo
Foo
f void);
f d a(s)
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