Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page (and groff 1.23.0.rc4 status)

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Kemper
On 4/4/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I haven't commited the patch I shared[1] anywhere--it's just living in > my Git stash. If you think it will improve life for groff users then > I'm happy to go ahead and commit it. Yeah, I think those are the ideal pair of fallbacks, and am mildly surprise

Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page (and groff 1.23.0.rc4 status)

2023-04-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Dave, At 2023-04-04T16:39:33-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/31/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Dave, what do you think about fallbacks for \(la and \(ra? > > It appears this has been resolved now, but let me know if I'm > misunderstanding. I haven't commited the patch I shared[1] anywher

Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Kemper
On 3/31/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Dave, what do you think about fallbacks for \(la and \(ra? It appears this has been resolved now, but let me know if I'm misunderstanding.

Re: pdfroff in groff 1.23.0.rc3 changes compared to 1.22.4

2023-04-04 Thread Michał Kruszewski
I use pdfroff only because of 2 reasons. If you know how to do the same with groff I would even prefer to use groff instead: 1. ToC. I haven't managed to generate ToC with groff at the beginning of the document. I do not ask for a lot. Just print me the info about header pages (stdout or file) a

pdfroff in groff 1.23.0.rc3 changes compared to 1.22.4

2023-04-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-04T13:48:39+, Michał Kruszewski wrote: > Thanks for you response Branden. > I use ms. Aha, thanks! I started trying to construct a reproducer using mm, then noticed how terrible our description of the "TC" macro in the groff_mm(7) man page is, so I've undertaken to improve it. A b

Re: Groff 1.23.0.rc3 changes comparing to version 1.22.4

2023-04-04 Thread Michał Kruszewski
Thanks for you response Branden. I use ms. Fortunately, the document with Makefile is available on github: https://github.com/Functional-Bus-Description-Language/Specification. You can easily compile the document by simply executing make. Version compiled with 1.22.4 is even available in .pdf form

Re: Groff 1.23.0.rc3 changes comparing to version 1.22.4

2023-04-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Michał, Thank you very much for evaluating groff 1.23.0.rc3. At 2023-04-04T10:56:46+, Michał Kruszewski via wrote: > Because of some bugs related with page numbering in case of ToC placed > at the beginning of the document (pdfroff) I have today installed and > tried 1.23.0.rc3. However,

Groff 1.23.0.rc3 changes comparing to version 1.22.4

2023-04-04 Thread Michał Kruszewski via
Because of some bugs related with page numbering in case of ToC placed at the beginning of the document (pdfroff) I have today installed and tried 1.23.0.rc3. However, the generated document layout in my case significantly differs from what is generated with 1.22.4. - .bp seems not to work. It d