Re: [RECIPE] Pull the trigger on Mister Sed? (MR macro migration)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Branden,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 06:05:20AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2024-01-15T01:10:45+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > I was checking the book script from Deri (Deri, could you simplify the
> > script now that we use MR?  So dropping support for old BR?), and
> > noticed about syscalls.2, which has man-page references inside a tbl.
> > 
> > That hasn't been migrated by the script.  I guess you'd want to also
> > migrate those, right, Branden?
> 
> Yes.  This can be done by setting the cross references inside text
> blocks "T{"/"T}", where they can call macros.  I'll test this, of
> course--calling macros from within a text block can be a chancy thing.
> I don't _expect_ problems here, since `MR` does not mess with the format
> of the output line--it does not alter line length, indentation, or
> vertical spacing.  I trust but will verify.
> 
> I also see several references that didn't get converted ca. line 850
> because my sed script cowardly refused to rewrite lines with *roff
> comments in them.  So I'll search for more stragglers like this.
> 
> I will therefore be back with a "RECIPE v2".  I do not promise that the
> updated sed script will be any easier to look at.  :P

Maybe some preparation patch can help with this?

> 
> > BTW, I've amended now the author, which I forgot.
> > <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib>
> 
> Thanks!  Better if I take the heat for this 15,000+-line change.  As
> Ferris Bueller said to Cameron Frye, "you don't want this much heat."
> ;-)

:-)

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> Regards,
> Branden



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