Hi Jim, Jim Avera wrote on Wed, May 16, 2018 at 07:26:21PM -0700:
> Some gobble got into the groff_font(5) man page. > Unsensible bits are hightlighted: > > "The depth subfield gives the depth of the glyph, that is, the > distance *below the **lowest point below* the baseline > to which the glyph extends (downwards is positive); > if a glyph *does not extend below above* the baseline, > it should be..." Fixed with the commit below, thanks for spotting it. > Betcha nobody reads that very often. Betcha if they wanted to understand it, they'd have to. ;) Yours, Ingo schwarze pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 3303e2ab1310f84a31b237c53e6adcb488008aca Author: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> Date: Thu May 17 17:17:50 2018 +0200 trivial wording fix broken wording reported by Jim dot Avera at gmail dot com on bug-groff@ --- man/groff_font.5.man | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/groff_font.5.man b/man/groff_font.5.man index 71badf1..5e01441 100644 --- a/man/groff_font.5.man +++ b/man/groff_font.5.man @@ -612,9 +612,8 @@ given a zero height, rather than a negative height. The .I depth subfield gives the depth of the glyph, that is, the distance -below the lowest point below the baseline to which the -glyph extends (downwards is positive); -if a glyph does not extend below above the baseline, it should be +below the baseline to which the glyph extends (downwards is positive); +if a glyph does not extend below the baseline, it should be given a zero depth, rather than a negative depth. . The _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
