Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-05 Thread John Gardner
> > *It relies on DocBook, which has by far the lowest quality man(7) code > generator on the planet.* I'd say second-lowest... you should see marked(1)'s output: https://github.com/markedjs/marked/blob/master/man/marked.1 On 6 March 2018 at 03:50, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > > > It'

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

2018-03-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Would it be possible to include these simple fixes in 1.22.4? > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-02/msg00015.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-02/msg00017.html LGTM. > And maybe also this one; [...] > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-02/

Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ingo, > > It's good a Markdown is working for you, but it and its ilk need to > > die out. Others did a better job, e.g. > > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ > > That may or may not be adequate for books, i don't know, but keep in > mind that AsciiDoc must never, under any circumstances, be

Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-05 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 03:43:43PM +: > It's good a Markdown is working for you, but it and its ilk need to die > out. Others did a better job, e.g. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ That may or may not be adequate for books, i don't know, but keep in mind that Asc

Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Larry, > I’m typesetting entire books out of Markdown (specifically, > > MultiMarkdown). And that's the problem. Markdown is ill specified, poorly thought out, and in consequence there are many dialects of Markdown. Thus http://commonmark.org/ and https://xkcd.com/927/ It's good a Markdow

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:24:38AM +0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > I now have full access to GNU's ftp, and I have generated a release > 1.22.3.rc1. The target is to stabilize this version before generating > an official 1.22.4. If you think there are some important fixes that > must be passed

[groff] [PATCH] Sort Perl hash keys

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
Hash iteration order may differ between runs, which makes builds harder to reproduce. Sort hash keys in gropdf and afmtodit output to avoid this. * src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.pl: Sort hash keys. * src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl: Iterate over sorted keys rather than using `each'. --- ChangeLog

[groff] [PATCH] Remove unnecessary randomness from example output

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
The hdtbl examples don't need good randomness, as they're only example output; removing the process ID from consideration allows better integration with reproducible builds. * contrib/hdtbl/examples/common.roff (random-s1): Remove process ID. --- ChangeLog | 10 ++