[bug #57506] Suspicious "slant" values in devps/TI, devlbp/HI, devlbp/HBI

Update of bug #57506 (project groff): Summary: Erroneous "slant" value in Times italic font(s) for ps device => Suspicious "slant" values in devps/TI, devlbp/HI, devlbp/HBI ___ Follow-up Comment #7: While we're

[bug #57506] Erroneous "slant" value in Times italic font(s) for ps device

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #57506 (project groff): Huh, so RTFMing suggests this value might be "erroneous" on purpose. afmtodit(1) says: "the slant ("angle") parameter in the font description file...is used by _groff_ in the positioning of accents. By default _afmtodit_ uses the negative of

[bug #55154] .tr has undocumented and inconsistent space-character restrictions

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #55154 (project groff): [comment #6 comment #6:] > Possibly, we should try deprecating both of these uses of `tr`, > so that we can say simply that `tr` remaps *characters* (ordinary > or special). Full stop. Now that this proposal has its own ticket (bug #64337), I'll

[bug #55124] doc/groff.texi: text about negative .pl values needs clarification

Update of bug #55124 (project groff): Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => gbranden

[bug #64337] [troff] deprecate silly `tr` tricks

URL: Summary: [troff] deprecate silly `tr` tricks Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Thu 22 Jun 2023 01:43:00 PM UTC Category: Core Severity: 1 -

[bug #55154] .tr has undocumented and inconsistent space-character restrictions

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #55154 (project groff): I may be groping toward an apology (in the formal, rhetorical, not conversational, sense) in the course of recent plus pending changes to groff_diff(7). I had forgotten, and thus was semi-surprised, that ".tr a\ " (note trailing space) was not

[bug #64316] [mm] WC "FB" and "-FB" arguments appear to be dead letters

Update of bug #64316 (project groff): Status:None => Postponed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: We've got worse problems than this. Blocked until bug #64336 is understood.

[bug #64336] [mm] loses long floating display

URL: Summary: [mm] loses long floating display Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Thu 22 Jun 2023 08:18:42 AM UTC Category: Macro mm Severity: 3 -