Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Larry, Larry Kollar wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:42:00PM -0500: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Branden wrote: >>> * My semantic macro package extending groff_man(7), if I can get it >>> where I'm happy with it and folks on the list don't bleed from the >>> eyes about it. >> That would be a

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Larry, Larry Kollar wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:09:20PM -0500: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> While i'm well aware that what i'm saying here is a commitment to >> a huge project, i'm willing to translate the whole groff texinfo >> documentation into groff_mdoc(7). > That's going to be an

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Larry Kollar
Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> * My semantic macro package extending groff_man(7), if I can get it >> where I'm happy with it and folks on the list don't bleed from the >> eyes about it. > > That would be a HUGE step backwards, making the groff manual pages > even less portable (they are already

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Larry Kollar
Ingo Schwarze wrote: > While i'm well aware that what i'm saying here is a commitment to > a huge project, i'm willing to translate the whole groff texinfo > documentation into groff_mdoc(7). That’s going to be an impressive undertaking. I’m trying to visualize the results—would you make each

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Brandon, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:44:32PM -0500: > At 2018-11-28T23:09:34+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04 2018 at 01:18:32 AM, "G. Branden Robinson" > > wrote: > B. A few bits of my advice in groff_man.7 about which things get marked > up in

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:03:26PM -0500: > The Texinfo manual is far too easy to overlook (I've certainly been > guilty of it) partly because the Texinfo ecosystem itself is not very > healthy. Last I checked (years ago), the texinfo development mailing > list was

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-11-29T00:25:05+, Deri wrote: > I'm interested in the groff book which is currently generated from the > texinfo document. I have done some work which merges texinfo source > and several man pages to produce an indexed pdf. It is not ready for > this release, but I'm hoping to get it

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Deri
On Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:44:32 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > The only other thing I would even think of proposing is taking the man > macro package documentation _out_ of the Texinfo manual, since > groff_man.7.man is where that material is actively maintained. I > already have a git

[groff] 02/02: man pages: Set filespecs in italics, not bold.

2018-11-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 1eb479103854518db2cc4254c1f2601c30be7380 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Wed Nov 28 18:13:03 2018 -0500 man pages: Set filespecs in italics, not bold. contrib/chem/chem.1.man: contrib/mm/groff_mm.7.man:

[groff] 01/02: groff(7): Fix style nits.

2018-11-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 97508346a76d8e1f62cd2a03a46544e91adb6905 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Wed Nov 28 18:08:44 2018 -0500 groff(7): Fix style nits. When a tagged paragraph is cased as if the tag begins a sentence, it

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-11-28T23:09:34+0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Hi Branden, > > We have both made some commits recently and I think we are not far from > making the final release, I was hoping you'd say something like that. :) > On Sun, Nov 04 2018 at 01:18:32 AM, "G. Branden Robinson" > wrote: > >

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-28 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Branden, We have both made some commits recently and I think we are not far from making the final release, On Sun, Nov 04 2018 at 01:18:32 AM, "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > I'd like to propose resolving the following 4 issues before going final. > > 1. Resolve this compiler warning: > >

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

2018-11-28 Thread Dave
URL: Summary: doc/groff.texi: text about negative .pl values needs clarification Project: GNU troff Submitted by: barx Submitted on: Wed 28 Nov 2018 09:13:30 AM CST Category: Core