groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Brian, At 2023-02-22T11:42:00-0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > That and what you've changed already is much better than current, as > it previously read as if global/region options could be specified > after .T&. I had tried to avoid implying that, but if it's more clear now, all the better. :) >

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Kurt, At 2023-02-22T10:46:29-0500, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > Since a prebuilt PDF version of the groff manual, groff.pdf, is > distributed with the release candidate tarball, wouldn't it be useful > if it was installed with the rest of the PDF documentation? Or at > least mention "make install-pdf

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-02-22T16:23:23+0100, Alexis wrote: > with your helpful comments and detailed reply I was able to identify the > culprit: In my shell environment I have set GROFF_ENCODING to utf-8. Ah-ha. > All tests pass as expected when running: > %/usr/bin/env -u GROFF_ENCODING make -j8 check

Re: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered

2023-02-22 Thread Brian Inglis
Thanks Branden, That and what you've changed already is much better than current, as it previously read as if global/region options could be specified after .T&. Any chance you could eventually get the info docs to the same level? I normally expect more and easier access to the info than the m

Re: RS/RE and paragraphing macros

2023-02-22 Thread Alex Colomar
Hi Branden, On 2/22/23 09:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [...] This sentence is precisely what I feel is missing in the documentation. Don't you think? Could you add this information to the manual page? How about this? diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in index 34a

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread T. Kurt Bond
Since a prebuilt PDF version of the groff manual, groff.pdf, is distributed with the release candidate tarball, wouldn't it be useful if it was installed with the rest of the PDF documentation? Or at least mention "make install-pdf" as installing it in the INSTALL.extra file? On Mon, Feb 20, 2023

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread Alexis
Hello Branden, with your helpful comments and detailed reply I was able to identify the culprit: In my shell environment I have set GROFF_ENCODING to utf-8. All tests pass as expected when running: %/usr/bin/env -u GROFF_ENCODING make -j8 check -8<- SNIP -8<-

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alexis, At 2023-02-22T10:22:56+0100, Alexis wrote: > happy to report that the build succeeds on macOS. > Running `make check` fails with the following (truncated) output: Thanks for this report. It is a bit surprising because John Gardner's and my builds on macOS report no test failures. ===

Re: a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread Thomas Dupond
Le 22/02/2023 à 10:06, Kusoneko a écrit : L'option .b \-mfr permet de configurer les espaces entre les phrases ainsi que les césures de manière appropriée s'il on suppose que .q foo.me est rédigé en français. -- Regards, Thomas I agree with your translation, but I'd replace "s'il on" with "si

Re: groff 1.23.0.rc3 available for testing

2023-02-22 Thread Alexis
Hello all, happy to report that the build succeeds on macOS. Running `make check` fails with the following (truncated) output: -8<- SNIP -8<- Testsuite summary for GNU roff 1.23.0.rc3

Re: a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread Kusoneko
Feb 22, 2023 03:53:20 Thomas Dupond : > "G. Branden Robinson" a écrit : >> Hi folks, >> >> I had forgotten about this, but there is a wart in doc/meintro_fr.me.in >> that would be nice to sand off before final release. >> >> +.\" BEGIN TRANSLATOR HELP NEEDED >> +The >> +.b \-mfr >> +option >> +

Re: a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-02-22T10:01:36+0100, Thomas Dupond wrote: > Oops, I made a phonetic mistake it should be: > > "si l'on suppose" and not "s'il on suppose" > > Sorry! No worries! Fixed in my working copy. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread Thomas Dupond
Le 22/02/2023 à 09:58, G. Branden Robinson a écrit : Hi Thomas, At 2023-02-22T09:52:21+0100, Thomas Dupond wrote: I would translate it like this: L'option .b \-mfr permet de configurer les espaces entre les phrases ainsi que les césures de manière appropriée s'il on suppose que .q foo.me est r

Re: a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Thomas, At 2023-02-22T09:52:21+0100, Thomas Dupond wrote: > I would translate it like this: > > L'option > .b \-mfr > permet de configurer les espaces entre les phrases > ainsi que les césures de manière appropriée > s'il on suppose que > .q foo.me > est rédigé en français. Thank you! I've c

a bit of French translation for groff 1.23.0

2023-02-22 Thread Thomas Dupond
"G. Branden Robinson" a écrit : > Hi folks, > > I had forgotten about this, but there is a wart in doc/meintro_fr.me.in > that would be nice to sand off before final release. > > +.\" BEGIN TRANSLATOR HELP NEEDED > +The > +.b \-mfr > +option > +sets up appropriate inter-sentence spacing and hyphe

Re: RS/RE and paragraphing macros

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[dropped Doug from CC; he hasn't replied yet so I don't want to clutter his inbox] At 2023-02-21T18:39:26+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: [...] > Would you mind rewriting the above with more unambiguous terms? > Although maybe it's not necessary. I managed to make you say what I > wanted you to sa

Re: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered

2023-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hello again Brian, At 2023-02-22T01:12:31-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Ah, I understand you now. Yes. A "table continuation" (`.T&`) isn't > treated in most (any?) respects like a separate table by tbl(1). [...] > I'll have a look at the caveats regarding multi-page boxed or > column-headi