On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 10:09:58PM +0000, cho...@jtan.com wrote:
> I had the ascii manpage open and while it was sitting there I thought
> that something looked off about it. I took a closer look and realised
> that the columns of symbols in the hexadecimal set are left of the
> octal and decimal sets by one character.
>
> The included patch moves a space character from after the symbol
> to after the hex digits so that all of the number columns in all
> sets are three digits/characters wide.
>
> I had the two open side-by-side for a while and it's very subtle
> but I think this looks a tiny bit neater.
>
> Matthew
>
hi. i agree that it looks off. but don;t you think that moving all the
columns but the first looks weird as well? why not line up the first
column so that the numbers match (i mean presume 3 digits for all
numbers to match, for example " 0" in the decimal set)?
then everything would align, no?
jmc
> --- ascii.7 Sun Nov 10 21:34:05 2024
> +++ bscii.7 Sun Nov 10 21:43:25 2024
> @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@
> .Nm hexadecimal
> set:
> .Bd -literal -offset left
> -00 nul 01 soh 02 stx 03 etx 04 eot 05 enq 06 ack 07 bel
> -08 bs 09 ht 0a lf 0b vt 0c ff 0d cr 0e so 0f si
> -10 dle 11 dc1 12 dc2 13 dc3 14 dc4 15 nak 16 syn 17 etb
> -18 can 19 em 1a sub 1b esc 1c fs 1d gs 1e rs 1f us
> -20 sp 21 ! 22 " 23 # 24 $ 25 % 26 & 27 '
> -28 ( 29 ) 2a * 2b + 2c , 2d - 2e . 2f /
> -30 0 31 1 32 2 33 3 34 4 35 5 36 6 37 7
> -38 8 39 9 3a : 3b ; 3c < 3d = 3e > 3f ?
> -40 @ 41 A 42 B 43 C 44 D 45 E 46 F 47 G
> -48 H 49 I 4a J 4b K 4c L 4d M 4e N 4f O
> -50 P 51 Q 52 R 53 S 54 T 55 U 56 V 57 W
> -58 X 59 Y 5a Z 5b [ 5c \e\ 5d ] 5e ^ 5f _
> -60 \` 61 a 62 b 63 c 64 d 65 e 66 f 67 g
> -68 h 69 i 6a j 6b k 6c l 6d m 6e n 6f o
> -70 p 71 q 72 r 73 s 74 t 75 u 76 v 77 w
> -78 x 79 y 7a z 7b { 7c | 7d } 7e ~ 7f del
> +00 nul 01 soh 02 stx 03 etx 04 eot 05 enq 06 ack 07 bel
> +08 bs 09 ht 0a lf 0b vt 0c ff 0d cr 0e so 0f si
> +10 dle 11 dc1 12 dc2 13 dc3 14 dc4 15 nak 16 syn 17 etb
> +18 can 19 em 1a sub 1b esc 1c fs 1d gs 1e rs 1f us
> +20 sp 21 ! 22 " 23 # 24 $ 25 % 26 & 27 '
> +28 ( 29 ) 2a * 2b + 2c , 2d - 2e . 2f /
> +30 0 31 1 32 2 33 3 34 4 35 5 36 6 37 7
> +38 8 39 9 3a : 3b ; 3c < 3d = 3e > 3f ?
> +40 @ 41 A 42 B 43 C 44 D 45 E 46 F 47 G
> +48 H 49 I 4a J 4b K 4c L 4d M 4e N 4f O
> +50 P 51 Q 52 R 53 S 54 T 55 U 56 V 57 W
> +58 X 59 Y 5a Z 5b [ 5c \e\ 5d ] 5e ^ 5f _
> +60 \` 61 a 62 b 63 c 64 d 65 e 66 f 67 g
> +68 h 69 i 6a j 6b k 6c l 6d m 6e n 6f o
> +70 p 71 q 72 r 73 s 74 t 75 u 76 v 77 w
> +78 x 79 y 7a z 7b { 7c | 7d } 7e ~ 7f del
> .Ed
> .Pp
> The
