Administrivia: project member active status in Savannah

Hi folks, I've marked several members of groff's GNU Savannah project as no longer "on duty", which is reflected in the publicly viewable list as "inactive" as opposed to "active". https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=groff I'm doing this because they've either let me know direc

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc2 available for testing

Hi Branden, Some drive-by comments from a quick skim. > o New requests `soquiet` and `msoquiet` are available. They operate as > `so` and `mso`, respectively, except that they do not emit a warning > diagnostic if the file named in their argument does not exist. Given the ‘file’ warning als

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc2 available for testing

At 2023-02-05T13:29:11+, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Some drive-by comments from a quick skim. Consider getting out of the car and taking the air next time, perhaps... > > o New requests `soquiet` and `msoquiet` are available. They operate > > as `so` and `mso`, respectively, except that they

Re: .ab oddity

> > Something I recommend to all serious Unix users is to put the exit status > in the shell prompt. Alternatively, you can indicate a non-zero exit status by displaying a prompt symbol in a different colour than usual. This might be preferable for folks who prefer fixed-width and/or minimalist p

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc2 available for testing

> > The an (man) macro package can now produce clickable hyperlinks within > terminal emulators It might be worth clarifying for macOS users that the hyperlinks use a protocol incompatible with Apple's: “*man:printf(3)*” is used instead of “ *x-man-page://3/printf*” (the latter scheme is ancient

Re: macOS Terminal man page URL format

Hi John! At 2023-02-06T15:19:10+1100, John Gardner wrote: > > The an (man) macro package can now produce clickable hyperlinks > > within terminal emulators > > It might be worth clarifying for macOS users that the hyperlinks use a > protocol incompatible with Apple's: “*man:printf(3)*” is used in

Re: macOS Terminal man page URL format

> > And since it's specific to the macOS Terminal application It's indicative of a much larger issue — there's no formal, standardised scheme for man page URLs. I encountered many variants