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and subject line Bug#1021795: fixed in groff 1.23.0-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1021795,
regarding groff-base: Please consider removing the extra spaces in Pq (& Po/Pc)
and Bq (& Bo/Bc)
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Package: groff-base
Version: 1.22.4-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The weird spacing on Pqs when compared to ()s has always bugged me,
but now it's bugged me so hard I decided to look.
You may have noticed that, for example,
(ibid)
is rendered differently from
.Pq ibid
It's very obvious when you have both styles stacked together,
or even when you compare stacking punctuation at the end of a Sy-style
macro against Pqing it, and it looks pretty ass.
To ensure this isn't just placebo, here's three troff sessions:
-- >8 --
$ troff -mdoc
(ibid)
x T ps
x res 72000 1 1
x init
p1
x font 5 TR
f5
s10000
V12000
H72000
md
DFd
t(ibid)
n12000 0
x trailer
V792000
x stop
$ troff -mdoc
.Pq ibid
x T ps
x res 72000 1 1
x init
p1
V12000
H72000
DFd
x font 5 TR
f5
s10000
h1666
md
t(
h1666
tibid
h1666
t)
h1666
n12000 0
x trailer
V792000
x stop
$ troff -mdoc
.No ( ibid )
x T ps
x res 72000 1 1
x init
p1
x font 5 TR
f5
s10000
V12000
H72000
md
DFd
t(ibid)
n12000 0
x trailer
V792000
x stop
-- >8 --
"(ibid)" and ".No ( ibid )" yield just "(ibid)",
".Pq ibid" adds 'h' (horizontal motion?).
If we insert some spaces, we get:
-- >8 --
$ troff -mdoc
(\|ibid\|)
x T ps
x res 72000 1 1
x init
p1
x font 5 TR
f5
s10000
V12000
H72000
md
DFd
t(
h1666
tibid
h1666
t)
n12000 0
x trailer
V792000
x stop
-- >8 --
i.e. ".Pq ibid" is "(\|ibid\|)", so with ⅙m space around the text. Huge.
This doesn't seem to be an inherent limitation of groff/mdoc,
and instead appears to be explicit in
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/mdoc/doc-ditroff
as doc-left-parenthesis (and doc-left-bracket for B[qoc],
and the -right- variants, naturally).
As a test, I've removed these spaces from the strings,
and run off three copies of a monograph:
* job 3300 is stock groff
* job 3301 has \|s removed from doc-*-parenthesis
* job 3302 has \^s removed from doc-*-bracket
which are available for comparison at
https://lfs.nabijaczleweli.xyz/0012-groff-mdoc-*q-spacing
I especially direct your attention to pp. 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15;
this is especially egregious in the big paragraph on page 10, which no
longer consists of 20% blank space.
For Bq, I find the last paragraph of page 68 very illustrative
(and the SYNOPSIS looks markedly better, too).
In groff, these blame back to the original mdoc rewrite in 2001ish,
and are blindly copied from 4.4BSD-Lite2:
-- >8 --
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-nroff:.ds lP \fR\|(\fP
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-nroff:.ds rP \fR\|)\fP
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-nroff:.ds lB \fR\|[\|\fP
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-nroff:.ds rB \fR\|]\fP
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-ditroff:.ds lP \fR\|(\|\fP\s10
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-ditroff:.ds rP \fR\|)\|\fP\s10
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-ditroff:.ds lB \fR\^[\^\fP\s10
usr/src/share/tmac/doc-ditroff:.ds rB \fR\^]\fP\s10
-- >8 --
None of the other encapsulation macros I found in
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/mdoc/doc.tmac
have these spaces, and for comparison Op has them (in groff and 4.4BSD)
but Oo and Oc don't (likewise),
so this reads to me like compensation for like deficient font metrics
on the phototypesetters of yore? or something?
It'd be great if you could consider dropping them :)
Best,
наб
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Source: groff
Source-Version: 1.23.0-1
Done: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
groff, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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pp.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 05:30:17 +0100
Source: groff
Architecture: source
Version: 1.23.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Closes: 243238 248529 257413 284002 411227 421437 551111 710178 716109 782903
892423 919890 991633 1009248 1011666 1021795 1021961 1022179 1030097 1032227
1040440
Changes:
groff (1.23.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release (closes: #1040440):
- [libdriver]: Fix SEGV in printer::set_ascii_char (closes: #421437).
- [docs]: groff(7): Replace many uses of \[cq] with \[aq] when the
latter is what is meant (closes: #551111).
- [docs]: groff(7): Fix missing escape synonyms for '.ft' (closes:
#1021961).
- [tbl]: Regularize diagnostics (closes: #710178).
- [troff]: Avoid infinite loop (closes: #892423).
- [docs]: roff(7): Revise language referring to Emacs as the "best"
program for editing roff documents (closes: #248529).
- [mdoc]: Fix infinite loop (closes: #411227).
- [mdoc]: Fix bad page number placement (closes: #919890).
- [mdoc]: Improve output of .At 32v (closes: #991633).
- [libbib]: Validate input to avoid heap overread (closes: #716109).
- [fonts]: Fix \[oq] and \[cq] in X11 text fonts (closes: #243238).
- [gropdf]: Recognize "com10" paper format (closes: #1009248).
- [docs]: Document grotty pager requirements more prominently (closes:
#257413).
- [docs]: pic(1): Fix content nits, including no longer referring to
pic.ms (closes: #1032227).
- [tmac]: Define fallbacks for chars in Latin-[259] (closes: #782903).
- [mdoc]: Drop thin and hair space escape sequences from several string
definitions (closes: #1021795).
- [mdoc]: Indent entire subsection heading by 3 ens, even if it breaks
across output lines (closes: #1022179).
* Build-depend on m4, texlive-base, and texlive-latex-base (closes:
#1011666).
* Override Lintian source-is-missing misfire (see #1019980).
* Drop mapping of \(oq to ' on devices other than utf8; upstream does this
now for latin1, which is probably good enough.
* Adopt upstream's use of SGR escape sequences for man/mdoc (LP: #610609).
I turned these off for Debian in 2002 because pagers didn't cope well at
the time, but it's now 21 years later and things have changed; SGR
escape sequences resolve some ambiguity (see #963490) and are required
for new features such as clickable hyperlinks.
* Honour /etc/papersize in PDF output, now that gropdf has the necessary
support upstream (closes: #1030097).
* Set doc-default-operating-system to "Debian" (closes: #284002).
* Map "^" to "\[ha]" and "~" to "\[ti]" for man/mdoc on the utf8 device,
to mitigate an upstream change likely to expose many glyph usage errors
in manual pages (although those errors were already visible in PDF
output).
* Arrange to rebuild documentation from the original source.
* Install groff.pdf (the PDF form of groff's Texinfo manual).
* Only force time display to UTC when the time came from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
(LP: #1908333).
* Enable OSC 8 hyperlinks for man pages.
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