[bug #63332] [PATCH] recent fallbacks.tmac change degrades ASCII output

2024-03-17 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #18, bug #63332 (group groff): [comment #3 comment #3:] > The best guess I have for now is that because the bullet is in > ISO 8859-1 (the daggers aren't), One nit: the bullet \[bu] is Unicode U+2022, so not in ISO 8859-1.

Re: Milestone reached: hyperlinked mdoc(7) documents in PDF

2024-03-17 Thread Lennart Jablonka
.Dd March 18, 2024 .Dt EMPTY-CALLED-AR .Os .Sh NAME .Nm empty-called-Ar .Nd a groff \-mdoc bug .Sh DESCRIPTION Empty called Ar: .No Ar That's it: This text right here shouldn't be oblique. .Pp I found this in your mandoc man page PDF in .Xr makewhatis 8 , as .Bd -literal -offset indent \&.Fl t Ar

Re: Use public inbox in groff [was: Remove redundant tests]

2024-03-17 Thread Dave Kemper
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > If Sourceware's policy is to maintain an archive only consequent to some > sort of _official_ request, then such would probably need to come from > Bertrand Garrigues, who is still groff's GNU maintainer. Additionally, Werner is the

Re: Milestone reached: hyperlinked mdoc(7) documents in PDF

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden! On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 05:23:20PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > Following up my earlier announcement regarding man(7),[1], I'm pleased > to report that we have a functioning PDF hyperlink story for the mdoc > package. > > * The Mt macro hyperlinks email

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff list because I started talking about my plans again] Hi Paul, At 2024-03-17T15:07:49-0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2024-03-17 12:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Can I ask how the existing system of measurement units in *roff is > > unsatisfactory for your application? > >

[groff] 05/15: [man]: Handle "internal" `MR` link targets.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit aa43ffcfb87c27b888dfaf94d5cb3ce0a5ceac3a Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 10:12:54 2024 -0500 [man]: Handle "internal" `MR` link targets. [man]: When formatting PDF, attempt lookups of `MR`

[bug #65469] [man] poor choice of escape character in `an*scan-string-for-backslash`

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #65469 (group groff): Status: In Progress => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed Planned Release:None => 1.24.0

[groff] 12/15: [tmac]: Migrate to more recent test conventions.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit b8aa88af6251df84b49385db50c56533c163ad00 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 20:27:23 2024 -0500 [tmac]: Migrate to more recent test conventions. * tmac/tests/an_inner-footer-abbreviation-works.sh:

[groff] 03/15: groff(1): Replace Texinfo markup.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 7249739b3803708d9db81c62682f3603dd88575d Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 08:45:07 2024 -0500 groff(1): Replace Texinfo markup. --- src/roff/groff/groff.1.man | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+),

[groff] 10/15: [mdoc]: Handle "internal" `Xr` link targets.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 4c59005ba0b7ca784f926921a8edbeb459dff61d Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 12:18:49 2024 -0500 [mdoc]: Handle "internal" `Xr` link targets. * tmac/doc.tmac (Xr): When formatting PDF,

[groff] 01/15: ChangeLog: Fix missing word in old item.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit eeb0417fd83bb78f858eaf3cef73e81acadeb57b Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sun Mar 17 16:28:09 2024 -0500 ChangeLog: Fix missing word in old item. --- ChangeLog | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

[groff] 07/15: tmac/pdf.tmac: Fix a derpy syntax error of mine.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 7b1fcdf40321537dcd1ff415f7d2fd9cefa1c75f Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 10:47:11 2024 -0500 tmac/pdf.tmac: Fix a derpy syntax error of mine. * tmac/pdf.tmac (pdf*href): Fix derpy syntax error,

[groff] 13/15: [tmac]: Regression-test Savannah #65469.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 6ffa91c24fa37ceaec2c9ae4ee14a7d515907342 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 20:31:58 2024 -0500 [tmac]: Regression-test Savannah #65469. * tmac/tests/an_inner-footer-abbreviation-works.sh: Add

[groff] 04/15: [man]: Generate PDF bookmark tag for `TH` call.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit c51c8f6863202b0abc5e21808126c0299cc7f3b0 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 09:26:33 2024 -0500 [man]: Generate PDF bookmark tag for `TH` call. [man]: When formatting PDF, automatically give each

[groff] 14/15: [man]: Fix Savannah #65469.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 63d3e6e0e1ea25b94d23cde3188ff0f1be18c0bf Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 20:35:24 2024 -0500 [man]: Fix Savannah #65469. Given a second chance, try to avoid Walter Donovan's fate. *

[groff] 09/15: [mdoc]: Generate PDF bookmark tag for `Os` call.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit e4709cf80e827b726737c5a9474901f63d2f3540 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 11:53:14 2024 -0500 [mdoc]: Generate PDF bookmark tag for `Os` call. * tmac/mdoc/doc-common (Os): When formatting PDF,

[groff] 02/15: doc/groff.texi.in: Fix spacing error in example.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit a559901e7f010f142b9f4efe0a911c904a994bc7 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sun Mar 17 16:30:09 2024 -0500 doc/groff.texi.in: Fix spacing error in example. Continues commit e7201b6a19, 15 March. ---

[groff] 08/15: [pdf,man,mdoc]: Refactor a recent feature.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 5058bc7ea64fbc88e534cbeaa3b85b2e0d2014d8 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 10:48:21 2024 -0500 [pdf,man,mdoc]: Refactor a recent feature. The "pdfhref pipe" feature recently added used in-band

[groff] 11/15: [mdoc]: Improve diagnostic message format (5/4).

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 28ed2f4067a68a22cc5f21ae33f1bfe391f221a0 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 12:31:34 2024 -0500 [mdoc]: Improve diagnostic message format (5/4). * tmac/mdoc/doc-common (LP, PP, pp, SH): Use new

[groff] 06/15: tmac/pdf.tmac: Annotate an open API question.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit b1195db8bd06667f4bb551e484d90838fca2abe1 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sat Mar 16 10:24:15 2024 -0500 tmac/pdf.tmac: Annotate an open API question. --- tmac/pdf.tmac | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

[groff] 15/15: groff_man*(7): Use active voice more.

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 3e08e6b343ba62f8f7904ad9239a2be3b8f340b8 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Sun Mar 17 08:34:48 2024 -0500 groff_man*(7): Use active voice more. --- tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 18 +- 1 file changed, 9

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, An uncharacteristically brief response from me this time. ;-) At 2024-03-17T14:10:18-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, I think this narrows it down. The Perl 5.40 release is coming > up, and I'd like to get the next release of podlators into it, with > the hope that Debian will go to

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > At 2024-03-16T12:32:44-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Okay, I think we've sorted out the way forward for groff that would >> address the immediate issue. That leaves three questions: should I do >> something in the next release of Pod::Man, should I assume that the

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, At 2024-03-16T12:32:44-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, I think we've sorted out the way forward for groff that would > address the immediate issue. That leaves three questions: should I do > something in the next release of Pod::Man, should I assume that the > next release of groff

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-03-17T20:54:12+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Gah, I forgot to paste the paragraph. It's from groff_man(7). > > Ordinary paragraphs not within an .RS/.RE inset region are inset > by the amount stored in the BP register; see section “Options” > below. The

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:53:22PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > > >

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-17T20:31:55+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > $ man groff_man | grep ' \.\(IP\|RS\) \[' > .RS [inset‐amount] > .IP [tag [indentation]] > >

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hmmm, I was about to say inset, but double-checked groff_man(7) to be > sure of the exact term, and then I got confused even more: > > $ man groff_man | grep ' \.\(IP\|RS\) \[' > .RS [inset‐amount] > .IP

Re: Use public inbox in groff [was: Remove redundant tests]

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[dropped Dave and bug-groff from Cc] Hi Alex & Andreas, At 2024-03-16T20:40:36+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 08:37:00PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Please contact overse...@sourceware.org. > > Branden, I guess it's you who'd need to ask them to do it. I'm not

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 02:24:29PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in groff mailing list to pitch a terminological reform] > > Hi Alex, Hi Banden, > At 2024-03-17T19:56:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > You already gained the first two spaces from the previous RS, in which > >

Re: [PATCH v2] tzfile.5: Fix indentation

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff mailing list to pitch a terminological reform] Hi Alex, At 2024-03-17T19:56:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > You already gained the first two spaces from the previous RS, in which > you're nested. Remember that we have > > .RS "\w' 'u" > .IP \(bu "\w'\(bu 'u" > > a

Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-17T12:53:14-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Alexis wrote: > > Note that the documented use of psselect in > > contrib/momdoc—describing how to rearrange a table of contents > > generated at the end of a document when using the ps output > > device—is unchanged as I

[bug #65354] [pdfmark] using -mspdf with -Tpdf signals error: pdfhref:init: unknown feature '-PT'

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #65354 (group groff): Category:Macro ms => Macro - others/general Summary: Using -mspdf with -Tpdf signals error: pdfhref:init: unknown feature '-PT' => [pdfmark] using -mspdf with -Tpdf signals error: pdfhref:init: unknown feature

[bug #65474] spurious "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when formatting zic(8) from TZDB project

2024-03-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #65474 (group groff): Category:None => Core Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor Item Group:None => Warning/Suspicious behaviour Status:

[bug #65474] false positive "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when processing TZDB zic.8

2024-03-17 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #65474 (group groff): Initially reported here: . ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #65474] false positive "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when processing TZDB zic.8

2024-03-17 Thread Paul Eggert
URL: Summary: false positive "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when processing TZDB zic.8 Group: GNU roff Submitter: eggert Submitted: Sun 17 Mar 2024 10:35:43 AM PDT

Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Alexis wrote: > Note that the documented use of psselect in contrib/momdoc—describing > how to rearrange a table of contents generated at the end of a document > when using the ps output device—is unchanged as I did not find a suitable > replacement. Switching to ps2ps

Re: Re: Why does groff require psutils?

2024-03-17 Thread Alexis
Hello Branden, > I'm sorry I let this fall onto the floor. Picking it up... That's alright; thanks for picking it up again, much appreciated! > groff runs it unconditionally if the output device is "html" (or "xhtml"), > because the "html" device's "DESC" file tells it to. Ah, that's the