Re: Selecting Papersize

2023-07-09 Thread Damian McGuckin
Here is the laser paragraph from the Usage section of my User Guide All of those command line examples in this section assume the default paper size. If one wants this to be a specific size, say A4, then the two options -dpaper=a4 and -P-pa4 should be passed to t

Re: groff master branch open for general mayhem

2023-07-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2023-07-10T00:52:07-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I've accumulated over a dozen bug fixes in my private branch, and also > some minor new feature changes. Here are the latter. I'll the > committing them shortly. > > Please report any objections to the below. Most or al

groff master branch open for general mayhem

2023-07-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi all, Thanks to everyone who contributed to the groff 1.23.0 release; the list of the many people who did (and chose not to remain anonymous) appears in Bertrand's release announcement.[1] I'd like to hereby open the master branch to the full range of development activities for the first time i

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread Deri
On Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:26:36 BST Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 07:13:54PM +0100, Deri wrote: > > It looks Ok, not tested. I'm happy for you to apply. > > Thanks. > > > Once gropdf moves to the font subsetting version it will cause a > > problem for reproducible builds, since th

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 07:13:54PM +0100, Deri wrote: > It looks Ok, not tested. I'm happy for you to apply. Thanks. > Once gropdf moves to the font subsetting version it will cause a > problem for reproducible builds, since the gubbins inside the pdf > changes enormously, but it should look iden

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 11:59:04AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-07-09T13:24:27+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > So, how about the attached patch? > > > > I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi. Here's an updated

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread Deri
On Sunday, 9 July 2023 17:59:04 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [adding Deri to CC] > > At 2023-07-09T13:24:27+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > So, how about the attached patch? > > > > I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi.

Re: Selecting Papersize

2023-07-09 Thread Deri
On Sunday, 9 July 2023 01:56:25 BST Damian McGuckin wrote: > When using the -dpaper=a4 option to 'groff' (which is passed to 'gtroff'), > the manual says to use '-P-pa4' also (which is passed to the backend). > > Does 'gtroff' not pass enough papersize information down its pipeline to > the backen

Re: Selecting Papersize

2023-07-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2023-07-09T13:56:13+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > So, when I build groff 1.23.0, I should make sure that PAGE is set to > A4. That should certainly work, but it shouldn't be _necessary_ if you do the build in an environment where an /etc/resolv.conf file reveals the Internet domain

Re: Selecting Papersize

2023-07-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2023-07-09T10:56:25+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > When using the -dpaper=a4 option to 'groff' (which is passed to > 'gtroff'), the manual says to use '-P-pa4' also (which is passed to > the backend). > > Does 'gtroff' not pass enough papersize information down its pipeline > to the

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[adding Deri to CC] At 2023-07-09T13:24:27+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > So, how about the attached patch? > > I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi. Here's an updated > version. I have no objection to this patch. I think C

Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

2023-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > So, how about the attached patch? I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi. Here's an updated version. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org] >From 522c4beb20414e8ceb6b321bbc96df6f35a81a10 M

Re: Man page customization after 1.23?

2023-07-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 08 Jul 18:17 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Ronan, > > At 2023-07-08T21:03:03+, Ronan Pigott wrote: > [LESS_TERMCAP_*] > > I wrote: > > > Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having had > > > up to 39 years to document it, apparently the only place the