Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

2019-04-10 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:28 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > Or get two 16x9s, and flip one vertically. It means your desktop looks a > > bit O_o, but it works. > > I have seen dual 16x10 both turned

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

2019-04-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > Or get two 16x9s, and flip one vertically. It means your desktop looks a > bit O_o, but it works. I have seen dual 16x10 both turned vertically side by side which was a great desktop. Displayport daisy chaining and a

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

2019-04-09 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-04-09 1:47 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I assume that there is some perl convention for documentation (POD?), > but I'm not immersed in that culture. Yeah, POD can make a decent man page without fiddling with groff. But maybe test the source with sane-width terminals (<=

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

2019-04-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Howard Gibson via talk |I am working on a Perl app, and I have written a man page for it. I |do not expect to learn groff ever. I can hack something that seems |to work. You just have to take a sample man page and hack it into your man page. Until you need to do

Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a doc bug can be hard

2019-04-08 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I'm reading dnf(8) on Fedora 29 and get irked by the layout of the > options. > --disableexcludes=[all|main|], > --disableexcludepkgs=[all|main|] > > Here's what "man dnf" shows on a terminal that is 80 > columns