On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > At 2026-04-05T23:35:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > Nonetheless, it's in use in production code, > > Any production code that hasn't been superseded?
Perhaps I failed to notice the ambiguity of the commit message. It says, "Drop footnote; the man(7) and mdoc(7) packages now use the stated technique." To my reading, this meant the technique stated in the footnote, since that's the closest antecedent. But maybe this means the technique stated in the text preceding the footnote. If so, it does complicate bringing back the footnote, because now it's a dangling pointer. > > No, I know only of those two, but since they each involve tradeoffs, > > They both do? What's the downside to the one implemented in groff _man_ > and _mdoc_ since 1.24.0? For man and mdoc purposes, there's no downside, because man and mdoc never use footnotes or floating keeps (or, possibly, diversions at all). For documents that do use them, which technique is better depends on how one wants to handle them. In particular, a floating keep could end up some distance from where it's intended under the one-giant-page system.
