On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:40:21PM +1000, Reuben ua Bríġ wrote:
> i would like to prefix this by saying i am writing this as a user
> giving feedback and not a developing giving patches and anyone who has
> a problem with that can go shove it rather than telling me to shut up.
>
> i noticed for a
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:46:01 +0100
> From: Stuart Henderson
> I think you need to adjust your attitude if you're going to continue
> posting here.
yall are happy to insult everyone else personally, or sit by and watch
theo do so, but if anyone suggests your changes maybe arent the
absolu
On 2021/06/28 18:20, Reuben ua Bríġ wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:47:01 +1000
> > From: Reuben ua Bríġ
>
> > im hopeful i can get the sources good enough for /usr/local/man/posix
>
> = i hope i can get them to run through man properly
>
> > but if not, in lieu of an option to make man pr
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:47:01 +1000
> From: Reuben ua Bríġ
> im hopeful i can get the sources good enough for /usr/local/man/posix
= i hope i can get them to run through man properly
> but if not, in lieu of an option to make man prefer formatted files:
= the new man is arrogant in ignorin
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:16:24 +1000
> From: Reuben ua Bríġ
> my experience with the awk manual is the the mandoc ouput and cat
> file are pretty much the same. in both, the table is too wide for
> 80 columns and wraps, making it impossible to read, but again, in
> both, its fine if you us
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:16:24 +1000
> From: Reuben ua Bríġ
> my experience with the awk manual is the the mandoc ouput and cat
> file are pretty much the same. in both, the table is too wide for 80
> columns and wraps, making it impossible to read, but again, in both,
> its fine if you use a
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 16:52:22 +0200
> From: Ingo Schwarze
> man1p/awk.1p
just commenting on the output, net whether the source is `correct',
but my experience with the awk manual is the the mandoc ouput and cat
file are pretty much the same. in both, the table is too wide for 80
columns and
Reuben ua Bríġ writes:
> > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:28:49 +0200
> > From: Ingo Schwarze
>
> > I literally spent years of my life improving that.
>
> and im sure it is much better for it.
>
> ...
>
> good on em. why is it easier to get third party binaries than the
> openbsd source? the whole re
> personally i would like to patch man so that it calls make (with a
> special makefile), so it could be extended
ooh, i just used the freebsd manual server to look at the 4.4 BSD lite
page for man.conf.
i think i had better upgrade! to 4.4 BSD.
honestly i dont mean to be snide. i wish it wa
> personally i would like to patch man so that it calls make (with a
> special makefile), so it could be extended
ugh. look at the problem of man-pages-posix. your mandoc program cant
format them, so you use another program to output the old output format
of man, and then man reads those. now,
Hi,
Reuben ua Brig wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:47:01PM +1000:
>> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:29:12 +0100
>> From: Stuart Henderson
Judiging from marc.info and from my own mailbox, i fail to find
the original copy of this posting by Stuart. Reuben, did you
publicly quote a private mail, or a
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:28:49 +0200
> From: Ingo Schwarze
> I literally spent years of my life improving that.
and im sure it is much better for it.
> texlive documentation is definitely a maze...
tex... well, half the point of it is that once you get it working, you
can run it on old file
Hi Reuben,
Reuben ua Brig wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +1000:
> From: Stuart Henderson
>> Maybe not for man-pages-posix, it looks like embedded tbl(7) support
>> is needed. mandoc doesn't do this, so they still need to be formatted
>> with groff.
> cheers. will see what i can do.
Hi,
Stuart Henderson wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 08:17:40AM +0100:
> On 2021/06/26 22:06, Mike Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:40:21PM +1000, Reuben ua Brig wrote:
>>> i would like to prefix this by saying i am writing this as a user
>>> giving feedback and not a developing giving p
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:29:12 +0100
> From: Stuart Henderson
> Seems I was (and the port Makefile) was wrong about it being tbl vut
> there aee some big problems with equations e.g. in float.h, math.h.
> btw the source manpages *are* installed but (probably due to how
> pkg_create handles man
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 22:06:10 -0700
> From: Mike Larkin
> your diff to implement what you are asking for is welcome!
will do.
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 08:17:40 +0100
> From: Stuart Henderson
> Maybe not for man-pages-posix, it looks like embedded tbl(7) support
> is needed. mandoc doesn't
On 2021/06/26 22:06, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:40:21PM +1000, Reuben ua Bríġ wrote:
> > i would like to prefix this by saying i am writing this as a user
> > giving feedback and not a developing giving patches and anyone who has
> > a problem with that can go shove it rather t
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:40:21PM +1000, Reuben ua Bríġ wrote:
> i would like to prefix this by saying i am writing this as a user
> giving feedback and not a developing giving patches and anyone who has
> a problem with that can go shove it rather than telling me to shut up.
>
> i noticed for a l
i would like to prefix this by saying i am writing this as a user
giving feedback and not a developing giving patches and anyone who has
a problem with that can go shove it rather than telling me to shut up.
i noticed for a lot of the ports to openbsd, even in base, a lot of
documentation is eithe
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