Re: Groff documentation, 5.1.7 Requests and Macros -- not a correction, just a suggested stylistic change

2024-03-06 Thread ropers
> On 3/6/24, ropers wrote: >> -In fact, the ending marker is itself the name of a macro to be >> -called, or a request to be invoked, if it is defined at the time its >> -control line is read. >> +In fact, the ending marker can itself be the name of another macro to be >> +called, or a request to

Re: Groff documentation, 5.1.7 Requests and Macros -- not a correction, just a suggested stylistic change

2024-03-06 Thread Dave Kemper
On 3/6/24, ropers wrote: > -In fact, the ending marker is itself the name of a macro to be > -called, or a request to be invoked, if it is defined at the time its > -control line is read. > +In fact, the ending marker can itself be the name of another macro to be > +called, or a request to be invo

Groff documentation, 5.1.7 Requests and Macros -- not a correction, just a suggested stylistic change

2024-03-06 Thread ropers
This is not a correction, just a suggested change for --IMHO-- better readability. If you prefer to keep this as it is, no problem. $ diff -u groff.texi.orig groff.texi --- groff.texi.orig 2024-03-05 18:20:59.940460376 + +++ groff.texi 2024-03-07 02:16:01.493119683 + @@ -5362,9 +5362

Re: HEAD build failure with OpenBSD yacc

2024-03-06 Thread Lennart Jablonka
Quoth G. Branden Robinson: Thanks for the report. I confess I have no clear idea how to address this problem. Is OpenBSD's yacc the same as byacc (with which I've had many successful builds, including one of HEAD just now), or different? OpenBSD’s yacc is indeed Berkeley yacc, byacc. It is n

Re: mailing list archive link in manual appears to have rotted

2024-03-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Ian, At 2024-02-28T14:56:19+, ropers wrote: > In your GROFF manual, the following place contains a mailing list archive > link: > https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html#FOOT2 > > That link is https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2013-December/006113.html > and it appears t

Re: Rotated Table in the middle of text

2024-03-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2024-03-06T08:43:59+1100, Damian McGuckin wrote: > The rotated table within a document is a commonly used paradigm within > a document, i.e. an A4 landscape page within a document full of A4 > portraint pages. > > What is the best way to achieve this? As far as I know, you have to