Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 02/26] Eliminate or replace blank lines.

At 2018-06-17T22:26:00+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:34 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > Blank lines are bad roff style. Per CSTR #54, blank lines are the > > equivalent of ".sp 1", but in GNU roff this can be overridden with a > > blank line macro (".blm"),

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 03/26] Break input lines at all sentence endings.

At 2018-06-17T22:32:17+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > The rationale for this change should be explained. I know we discussed > it on the list, but developers browsing the git history won't easily > get access to that discussion. > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:35 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 04/26] Reorganize sections to use only section names endorsed by man-pages(7), and put them in the recommended order.

Hi Jean, At 2018-06-17T23:04:08+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:36 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > Use subsection macro (SS) where helpful. I have to admit I'm not clear on the state of this one's acceptance. Reviewing your last mail to me on item 4 in this

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 26/26] Rewrite discussion of QUILT_COLORS configuration variable.

Hi Jean, At 2022-07-04T14:18:11+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:34:22 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Thanks for your review of these patches; I think we had a good meeting > > of the minds. Just needs that final push. > > It's been a while, I know.

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 05/26] Use font macros instead of font escapes.

At 2018-06-20T10:24:30+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:37 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > Apart from being higher-level and easier to read, the macros get you > > proper italic corrections when abutting italic with non-italic text. > > (...) > > Looks good to

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 07/26] Escape ASCII hyphen-minus characters used as such.

Hi Jean, At 2018-06-20T11:33:25+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:39 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has > > to be escaped; this is a requirement going all the way back to Bell > > Labs Troff, but

Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 06/26] Use groff_man(7)s EX and EE macros for examples.

At 2018-06-20T11:24:34+0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:38 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > > This eliminates the use of low-level requests in this man page (the > > groffism ".fam" to change the font family and the switching off and > > on of fill mode with ".nf"