On 12/22/20, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> 2) Report #59415 shows a lot of warnings.
> It was declared as invalid by Ingo Schwarze on 5th November 2020,
> but I see no objective reasons given by him,
> therefore subjective, emotional ones,
> that I have seen before given by him about some reports
1) The mandoc version 1.4.14 is out of date.
People should use the latest version, (now) 1.4.15.
2) Report #59415 shows a lot of warnings.
It was declared as invalid by Ingo Schwarze on 5th November 2020,
but I see no objective reasons given by him,
therefore subjective, emotional ones,
that I hav
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, John Gardner wrote:
> I condemn two spaces, period.
Having gotten bitten by the who-says-what-where bug concerning
double-spaced sentences, I re-read my own documentation for the .SS
macro in mom. Seems to me I covered all the bases:
"Typeset copy should never have two spa
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote:
> It seemed a minor thing before, but now that it's tripped up the
> author of possibly the most elaborate macro package published in
> the roff language's 50-year history, I wonder if that's worth
> revisiting.
Being said author, I can confirm that yes, I
On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:21:35 +1100
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> If a second argument is never given to the 'ss' request, GNU
> 'troff' separates sentences as AT&T 'troff' does.
I think "never" is a long time. Would this be better?
If a second argument is not provided to the 's
Hello all,
I have a module for address labels, look in
http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz
It attempts to adjust the typesetting to centre the text within
the label. There is provision for different makes of label and different
printers and how near the edge they print.
Hope
Hi Groffers,
I have a question.
I'm doing some address printing. For the moment I use enscript in a
bashscript for this.
With enscript I can detect when I have a input line that doesn't fit on 1
line of the label. Enscript has a flag that it creates a second page on
overflow to put the rest of the
The words about double spacing quoted below can be misread as unconditional
advice. I suggest replacing "In" with "In this case".
Also so much mention of AT&T strikes me as clutter. At least the first
instance would better be dropped.
"If a second argument is never given to the 'ss' request, GNU
On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 03:41:14 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I may be misunderstanding something here, apologies if I am.
>
> No, I appreciate you speaking up--I welcome critical evaluation of my
> suggestions, especially in cases like this where I haven't carved out
> enough time to e
As of this writing, the latest releases of Darwin are 20.2.0 (stable) and
20.3.0 (beta), respectively corresponding to macOS 11.1 and macOS 11.2
beta. However, the `doc-operating-system-*` strings defined in
tmac/mdoc/doc-common-u only count up to 19.2.0.
Obviously, keeping this list up-to-date is
>
> It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two
> Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in the
> media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period".
>
I condemn two spaces, period.
Worst\. Indentation style\. Ever.
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