From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man2/: SYNOPSIS: Use SY/YS
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 17:39:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241201233935.stsyhfpuuhfj5tim@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241201214520.7ugsotknjsxicqdv@devuan>
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Hi Alex,
At 2024-12-01T22:45:20+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 02:51:27PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You can go ahead and use the second argument to `SY` now--older
> > groffs (and other formatters) won't complain about it.[1]
Sorry, I had a brainfart there--I should have said `YS` instead of `SY`;
that is what my example illustrated.
> Hmmm. Actually, groff <= 1.23.0 is bad: it doesn't print $2. See
> below.
Right. And I wouldn't expect it to; a general rule in *roff is that
macros do nothing with arguments that they don't expect. (mandoc(1)
prints them all.)
So yes, probably need to wait for 1.24 for this one.
Regards,
Branden
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-24 21:10 [PATCH] man2/: SYNOPSIS: Use SY/YS Alejandro Colomar
2024-12-01 20:51 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-12-01 21:45 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-12-01 23:39 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
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