[Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread Robert Thorsby
Does anyone know why the latest version of groff in Debian and [K] ubuntu is 1.18.1 (incorporating version 1.1.4 of Peter Schaffter's mom macros)? Is there a later deb package available anywhere? for the whole of groff? or for a later, compatible, version of mom? Installing another distro

Re: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Does anyone know why the latest version of groff in Debian and [K] ubuntu is 1.18.1 (incorporating version 1.1.4 of Peter Schaffter's mom macros)? Because they use a hack for Japanese which I've refused to incorporate into 1.19. Unfortunately, progress w.r.t. good Japanese (TTY) support

Re: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 19/11/07 23:25:42, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I'm slowly getting nearer to a new groff release. However, it's just me basically working on this -- for example, cleaning up the copyright stuff eats a huge amount of my time which I can afford for maintaining groff... I apologise if my previous

Re: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread brian m. carlson
[Take note: Debian bug CC'd] On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:13:20PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: However, it is truly frustrating for all concerned when The Debian Way turns out to be the wrong way because, as you are aware, The Debian Way does not concede the possibility of error in itself. :-)

Re: Bug#196762: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:13:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote: [adding kinsoku shori handling] I would be overjoyed if somebody got us out from between the rock and the hard place. CVS would be fine. Excellent. I'll start work today. Basically the top-level goal is that man(1) keeps on

Re: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I'm happy to (try to) add kinsoku shori handling for Debian[0], [...] Great! Maybe I don't understand the problem with width handling, but it seems like you get this for free with Unicode, which is another reason that I think CVS groff would be better. Well, you have to implement character

Re: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

2007-11-19 Thread Larry Kollar
Robert Thorsby wrote: Does anyone know why the latest version of groff in Debian and [K] ubuntu is 1.18.1 (incorporating version 1.1.4 of Peter Schaffter's mom macros)? Is there a later deb package available anywhere? for the whole of groff? or for a later, compatible, version of mom? When