Re: Old version of vgrind no longer working

2022-12-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Damian, > echo "$i" | sed -e 's%[[./*$^\\]%\\&%g' -e 's%.*%/^&:/d%' ... > sed: -e expression #1, char 18: unterminated `s' command It's the first expression which is the problem. $ sed -e 's%[[./*$^\\]%\\&%g'

Old version of vgrind no longer working

2022-12-24 Thread Damian McGuckin
I have a version of vgrind with the line echo "$i" | sed -e 's%[[./*$^\\]%\\&%g' -e 's%.*%/^&:/d%' It has worked for a gazillion years - 20+. Upon upgrading to CentoS 7.9, I suddently find that I get an error sed: -e expression #1, char 18: unterminated `s' command Can

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 24 December 2022 01:26:22 GMT Richard Morse wrote: > > I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man pages? > > I realize I’m just one person, but my use of groff (and Heirloom for using > useful fonts) is entirely outside of man pages… > > Ricky At the start

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 24 Dec 16:45 -0600, Russ Allbery wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > At 2022-12-23T12:49:15-0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man > >> pages? About 18 months ago I received some good help on this list for setting up

Re: Viewing PDFs. (Was: Happy new Sun)

2022-12-24 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:31:38 GMT Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > "o" for the former. > 'That said, https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/code-mailx-1.pdf (beware: > 1MB!), realized with newest minor of mdocmx on groff > 1.23.0.rc1.2915-c6d7, via pdfmark.tmac, causes the outline pane to > show things twice; i

Re: Wanted: your historical me(7) documents (was: [groff] 08/21: [me]: Integrate better with papersize.tmac.)

2022-12-24 Thread Dave Kemper
Snipping most of this message, as it's stuff where either I agree or no response seems necessary. On 12/13/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Still, as long as the release notes mention the default line-length >> change, I think we're covered. It looks like the relevant NEWS item >> mentions

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi All, On 23/12/2022 21:49, Russ Allbery wrote: I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man pages? Well, I've never written a single man page with the man macro set. I have to confess, though, that during the early 1990s I wrote software for MSDOS (that was the only

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > At 2022-12-23T12:49:15-0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside of man >> pages? > Others have answered this but I would also point you to Ralph Corderoy's > page on the subject. > https://www.troff.org/pubs.html

Re: Viewing PDFs. (Was: Happy new Sun)

2022-12-24 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 24 December 2022 09:06:07 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > You may need to open the outline pane on the left, which acts like a > > table of contents. > > Is it mandatory that a PDF viewer must supply this mechanism to be > worthy of the name? Off-hand, I don't recall

Re: Viewing PDFs. (Was: Happy new Sun)

2022-12-24 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ralph Corderoy wrote in <20221224090607.7dbb222...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>: |Hi Deri, | |> You may need to open the outline pane on the left, which acts like a |> table of contents. | |Is it mandatory that a PDF viewer must supply this mechanism to be |worthy of the name? Off-hand, I don't

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > These are all correct statements. > There are two major points to make here. > 1. Request invocations are not macro calls. So all that stuff about > double quotes we were talking about doesn't apply here. :( > Sorry about that. That was a language

Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > At 2022-12-23T10:03:13-0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, the difficulty lies mostly in the layering, because people can >> write POD source that is nonsensical in a man page context but that I >> still have to do something with. Stuff like C<<< B<< L >> >>>. >