[bug #63074] [troff] support construction of arbitrary byte sequences in device control commands

2024-01-15 Thread Deri James
Follow-up Comment #27, bug#63074 (group groff): [comment #25 comment #25:] > I hear your expression of urgency but I don't think "stringhex" is good long-term solution to what ails us. You are correct in comment #22 that I did not correctly apprehend at first what it was for. I thought you

[bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?

2024-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #11, bug#59962 (group groff): Thanks to Dave for covering some of these points. That may help make my reply shorter (but don't count on it ). [comment #8 comment #8:] > I think we discussed this already, I sill think this is not correct, but it does not make sense to discuss

line drawing and cargo cults (was: [bug #64285] [troff] \D't')

2024-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[migrating discussion to groff list, as bug-groff is mainly a reflector for Savannah traffic, which this isn't] At 2024-01-14T19:31:43-0500, Steve Izma wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 05:23:28PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I pretty much do, yeah. Every crazy feature we keep dragging >

[bug #64285] [troff] \D't' (set line thickness) drawing command alters drawing position

2024-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Follow-up Comment #15, bug#64285 (group groff): [comment #14 comment #14:] > we now know that in the six months that 1.23 has been out, people have complained about various changes debuting in it, but not this one (at least not where I've seen it, though of course I don't follow every forum where