I'm working through some Debian packages whose tests fail with groff
1.24.0.rc1. One of those is xlbiff, where there was a previous attempt
to improve the handling of constant-width font selection in
https://github.com/edsantiago/xlbiff/commit/e0987fbbcd2304b389f70bbedb9ab9201c8bd7f1.
My current plan is to add the following preamble to the affected pages:
.ie n .ds CR R
.el .ds CR CR
... and then just use `.ft \*(CR` in each of the places where it
currently has a conditional. This seems to work fine for utf8, ps, and
pdf output.
However, when I tested with -Thtml I found that the expected <pre> or
<tt> tag was missing. I don't exactly remember how this works, so I
poked around in src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp and found this:
void html_printer::start_font (const char *fontname)
{
assert(fontname != 0 /* nullptr */);
[...]
} else if (strcmp(fontname, "CR") == 0) {
if ((! fill_on)
&& is_courier_until_eol()
&& is_line_start(! fill_on)) {
current_paragraph->do_pre();
}
current_paragraph->do_tt();
[...]
}
}
So that should work, right? CR is meant to turn into a <pre> or <tt>
tag depending on the context. But even with current git master, it
doesn't seem to:
$ cat t.1
.TH T 1
.SH NAME
t \- a test
.SH DESCRIPTION
.ft CR
constant-width text
$ ./test-groff -ww -man -Thtml t.1
[...]
<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">constant-width
text</p>
So there's no warning, but also no actual constant-width output. Am I
holding it wrong somehow, or is this broken?
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
