Re: Proposed: simplify `mso` request

2024-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi John, At 2024-02-28T07:26:21+1100, John Gardner wrote: > Hi Branden, > > Wouldn't this conflict with behaviour documented in groff_tmac(5)? From the > section *"Inclusion"* (emphasis mine): Very much so, which is why I am submitting the proposal to this mailing list for

Re: Proposed: simplify `mso` request

2024-02-27 Thread John Gardner
Hi Branden, Wouldn't this conflict with behaviour documented in groff_tmac(5)? From the section *"Inclusion"* (emphasis mine): GNU troff offers an improved feature in the similar request “*mso* > *package-file-name*”, which searches the macro path for > *package-file-name*. Because its argument

Proposed: simplify `mso` request

2024-02-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I'd like to suggest the attached diff. What removing this code would do is make the `mso` request no longer look for "tmac.s" if "s.tmac" is specified as the request's argument, and vice versa. Here's my case against. 1. It's needless complexity. 2. The main things you'd need this for are