Nice to see the new diagnostic working in the real world.
n/groff_mmse.7
troff: /home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build/../tmac/sv.tmac:131: warning:
contradictory hyphenation flags ignored: 33
--
Regards,
Branden
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On 26/06/18 14:27, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> only _sometimes_ happens?
I guess its the placement of padding space, when formatting fully
justified ASCII, that's puzzling you? AIUI, to avoid rivers of padding
space, groff
Hi Branden,
> Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> only _sometimes_ happens?
Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
> - afmtodit [-ckmnsvx] [-a n] [-d desc_file] [-e enc_file]
> -[-f internal_name] [-i n] [-o out_file] afm_file map_fi
At 2018-06-26T15:09:57+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
[...]
> The extra spaces are moved from the right end of the line to the left:
[...]
> This looks to me like nroff is alternating the added spaces between the
> left and right ends of the line. Kernigha
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:09:57PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> > Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> > only _sometimes_ happens?
>
> Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
NOTE: font -> font_name
> > - afmtodit [-ckmnsvx] [-a
I enjoyed this Easter egg; maybe you will too.
src/preproc/refer/refer.cpp:
for (--argc, ++argv;
!finished_options && argc > 0 && argv[0][0] == '-'
&& argv[0][1] != '\0';
argv++, argc--) {
const char *opt = argv[0] + 1;
while (opt != 0 && *opt != '\0') {
switc
G. Branden Robinson wrote in <20180626153737.mf72sv3paetlc...@crack.dead\
beast.net>:
|I enjoyed this Easter egg; maybe you will too.
Why easter egg if i might ask?
|src/preproc/refer/refer.cpp:
...
|while (opt != 0 && *opt != '\0') {
| switch (*opt) {
...
| case '-':
|
Alas, spooky.diff, allegedly at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/attachments/20180626/6721611f/attachment.diff
elicits 404 Not Found. It may be that some server or client is
allergic to unusual file extensions.
doug
Ancient history: when I wrote BCPL roff, I immediately noticed the
page-level density gradient from thick on the left to thin on the
right if padding spaces were inserted from the right. I next tried
randomly distributing the padding. This was even worse because it
led one to perceive false phrase
