On Tue, Dec 17, 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm glad Peter raised; now that commit has to fold. :)
I almost feel guilty for opening this can of worms. :) I was looking for an explanation for the behaviour, which I assumed was "correct", my (somewhat) novel mapping of image-to-glyph with .char being being to "blame." Otherwise, I'd have posted a bug report. > As the author of an output driver, and the only one for groff who > still participates in our mailing list discussions, your insight > into these matters is much deeper than almost any user's. I am very much of the same opinion. To my mind, gropdf is the jewel in groff's crown and its author a treasure. > Furthermore I think we must develop our terminological lexicon to > support intelligible discussion of these matters. I find your > distinction between something that happens "chronologically" versus > something that happens "as soon as it is actioned" to be pretty slippery > to get a hold of in the mind. Both imply temporal sequencing to me. > > Maybe it's just _my_ mind that struggles... Interesting. I, too, think chronologically about output. This hit home when Branden said of .wh a while ago that the mnemonic was for "where" whereas I always think of it as "when." -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca