[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #64576 (group groff): [comment #2 comment #2:] > I reiterate that stuff like this: > . while dpdf:href.opt\\$1 \{\ > . pdf:href.opt\\$1 \\$@ > . shift \\n[pdf:href.argc] > . \} > is too clever by half--by three quarters, maybe, This, of

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #64576 (project groff): > Incidentally, and to motivate my frustration with the `pdfhref` approach, the following works terribly. The hotspots don't know where to end, going nuts and electrifying everything after them even without a page break to screw them up by not

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #64576 (project groff): Apologies, the t.pdf file had a problem. It worked fine with okular and evince, but some other viewers did not make the links clickable. I have fixed the issue and t-new.pdf should be working with all viewers. (file #55090)

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #64576 (project groff): I've just lost half a days typing, my fault, closed the wrong firefox window! Not all is lost, phew, found snippets in my clipboard history as I copied text from Dasher to the savannah page, but it has not got everything, because some I typed

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64576 (project groff): I reiterate that stuff like this: . while dpdf:href.opt\\$1 \{\ . pdf:href.opt\\$1 \\$@ . shift \\n[pdf:href.argc] . \} is too clever by half--by three quarters, maybe, if you're neither doing sanitization (which

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64576 (project groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > An immense amount of code in _pdf.tmac_ seems to be dedicated to an exploration of the question "hey, what if we chucked established _roff_ programming idioms out the window and re-implemented _getopt_long_(3)

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

URL: Summary: [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Mon 21 Aug 2023 09:50:40 AM UTC Category: Macro -