Re: No 6.05/.01 pdf book available

[Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 14 August 2023 18:37:26 BST Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Deri, Branden,
> 
[...]
> 
> > Another change which would need to be accepted is
> > to allow a fourth parameter to .MR which is the destination name. Normally
> > the name of the destination is derived from the first two parameters
> > concatenated with "_", but if the name part of the .MR call to the man
> > page includes non- ascii characters (such as ".MR my\-lovely\-page 7 ,")
> > then it needs to provide a "clean" destination name.
> 
> Is this really needed?  Can't gropdf just translate them internally?  Say,
> do unconditionally the equivalent of `| tr - _ |` or something like that.

See other email.

[...]
> 
> Do you have an estimate of how long your branch could take to merge?
> As in, more than a month or less than a month?

I'm really hoping Branden's going to help me with that, I think he intimated 
that he might when he suggested I start a branch for the work. I have one more 
push to the branch to do, but I need to contact Peter since there is a minor 
tweak to om.tmac to make expandos work in mom.

> > Makefile
> > 
> > The simplest option would be to add a new rule to the Makefile which is
> > dependent on all the man pages have been built, and cd's into the scripts/
> > LinuxManBook directory and calls the program with the location where the
> > man pages exist. However, I suspect Alex fancies something more
> > complicated by replacing the perl with a hybrid of shell command and make
> > magic.
> 
> You suspect well.  :)

Just like my wife, she often tells me I'm "No longer required on the 
journey!". :-)

Cheers

Deri

> > I attach a new copy of BuildLinuxMan.pl which is an amalgam of mine and
> > Brian's code. This has the new -paper flag.
> > 
> > Alex's MR branch
> > 
> > The new program now recognises existing .MR's in the document and provides
> > the "clean" destination name, so it should run against the new branch.> 
> >> 	nodemask ... on-
> >> 	...
> >> 	line, ...
> >> 
> >> There appear to be 24 single word instances of online and 12 outdated
> >> hyphenated compound word instances of on-line across all man pages.
> >> 
> >> UI: I also noticed, while looking for tables to compare, that pages are
> >> ordered by filename not like rpmvercmp/ls -v/RPM::VersionSort e.g
> >> ISO_8859-2 is after ISO_8859-16 which may not be as expected.
> >> Used rpmvercmp in last line of perl sub sortman and works as expected.
> > 
> > I have used Sort::Versions (see above), thanks for the suggestion.
> > 
> >> Tech nitpick: .Z is still recognized by GUIs as compress output
> >> (UNIX-compressed file) - is there no other file type suffix used for
> >> 
> >> ditroff intermediate output? Aha - Alex says .set:
> >> 	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00213.html
> > 
> > Well, that's settled.
> > 
> >> Added variables and changed those also in BLM-letter.pl: copy attached.
> >> 
> >>> Thanks for your help.
> >> 
> >> Happy to help in any way.
> > 
> > Hope you're happy with this version.
> 
> Let's open the improved Christmas present!  :D
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex