[bug #64954] groff.texi: spelling errors found by "codespell"

2023-12-09 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #5, bug#64954 (group groff): Comment #2 issue fixed in [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=df31a1960 commit df31a1960]. ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

2023-12-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Doug, At 2023-12-09T09:26:16-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > For historical reasons (and for compatibility with AT 'troff'), > > the end macro exits as soon as it causes a page break and > > no remaining data is in the partially collected line. > > This isn't the only anomalous behavior at

Re: Updating eqn

2023-12-09 Thread Dave Kemper
On 12/7/23, Carl Milsted wrote: > I cloned your repo and found the bugs and fixed them on my machine. I'd > like to know the proper procedure to send the fixes back your way. I > have not contributed to a GNU project before. Hi Carl, You can open a bug report in the groff bug tracker

Re: sys-apps/groff-1.23.0: explicitly disable compatibility wrappers

2023-12-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Fabian, At 2023-12-09T19:25:19+0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On Illumnos, with 1.23.0 default configure, if I do this: > > % bzcat /gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/man/man3p/snprintf.3p.bz2 | ( cd > /gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/man && /gentoo/prefix64/usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim > ) | ( cd

Re: sys-apps/groff-1.23.0: explicitly disable compatibility wrappers

2023-12-09 Thread Fabian Groffen
Hi, On Illumnos, with 1.23.0 default configure, if I do this: % bzcat /gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/man/man3p/snprintf.3p.bz2 | ( cd /gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/man && /gentoo/prefix64/usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim ) | ( cd /gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/man && preconv -e UTF-8 ) | ( cd

Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

2023-12-09 Thread Douglas McIlroy
> For historical reasons (and for compatibility with AT 'troff'), > the end macro exits as soon as it causes a page break and > no remaining data is in the partially collected line. This isn't the only anomalous behavior at the end of a document. Since day one, troff has occasionally emitted a

Re: sys-apps/groff-1.23.0: explicitly disable compatibility wrappers

2023-12-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Fabian, I saw the following in a commit[1] of yours. "On Prefix systems, compatibility wrappers are generated because the default action is "auto". These wrappers, however, do not function well on certain systems (Illumnos for instance), but from tests it appears they are not necessary