Update of bug #62455 (project groff):
Status: None => Need Info
Assigned to: None => gbranden
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Follow-up Comment #1:
I don't find this report very helpful.
Please simply include the diagnostic output, or incorrect formatting, of the
man page in question.
The patch has spurious comments and rationale. *roff does not have a Boolean
data type. Please review the section/node "Numeric Expressions" of our
Texinfo manual for an explanation of truth values in the language.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/groff.texi#n5600
Further, the existing code in the 'TH' macro definition of tmac/an.tmac does
not use the '&' operator at all, anywhere; the commit message and comments in
the patch seem to suggest that it was employing it incorrectly, when this is
not the case.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/an.tmac#n199
As a rule of thumb, it is a good practice to present the underlying problem in
a defect report with at least much detail as a proposed patch, because an
alternative solution might be a better one.
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