Re: ⟨ vs < in hostname man page of hostname

[Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>]

On 10/08/2023 04:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex & Jonny,
> 
> At 2023-08-09T12:16:12+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> other times '⟨⟩' .
>>
>> When you see that, the page was written properly in man(7) (or
>> mdoc(7)? I expect both produce the same glyph; Branden?).
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/an.tmac?h=1.23.0#n1121
> 
> At present, mdoc(7) hyperlinks don't render similarly, but I plan to
> make them do so for groff 1.24.
> 
> Here's an example.
> 
> $ cat EXPERIMENTS/use-Lk.mdoc
> .Dd 2023-08-09
> .Dt use\-Lk 1
> .Os
> .Sh Name
> .Nm use\-Lk
> .Nd demonstrate a hyperlink
> .Sh Description
> What do man pages look like with
> .Lk http://example.com hyperlinks ?
> 
> use-Lk(1)                   General Commands Manual                  use-Lk(1)
> 
> Name
>      use-Lk — demonstrate a hyperlink
> 
> Description
>      What do man pages look like with hyperlinks: http://example.com?
> 
> GNU                               2023‐08‐09                         use-Lk(1)
> 
> Except for font styling differences, mandoc(1) renders it the same.
> 
> At 2023-08-09T11:39:32+0100, Jonny Grant wrote:
>> I'd change the groff configuration to generate the web version of
>> those UR on man7.org to be <>. Maybe that's just my preference :)
> 
> You can express your preference in groff man(7)'s site-local
> configuration.  Its installation location for your system is documented
> in groff_man(7).
> 
> On my Debian system, it's in /etc/groff/man.local.
> 
> Adding the following should do the trick:
> 
> .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
> .  char \[la] <
> .  char \[ra] >
> .\}
> 
> Regards,
> Branden

Many thanks for your reply with the steps to follow

With kind regards
Jonny