Re: groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report (was: [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 12/19/22 06:32, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

>>> Unofficial patch attached.
>>
>> Do you like the patch?
> 
> "Like" is a strong word.  It makes the page less weird.  I'll stand by
> it, if that's what you mean.
> 
>> Should I apply it, or is it just a draft?
> 
> Go right ahead.  The real work is in auditing that table line by line.

Would you mind sending a patch that I can apply with git?  I could manually edit 
the file you attached, but I'm feeling lazy for that :\

> 
> I saw reference to some compression program called "yabba" and I
> thought, "what the Hutt?"

:)

I have a patch for an extension that wasn't covered by this file.  I'm guessing 
pkg-config wasn't invented when this page was written?  That's really old...  It 
seems the page goes back to man-pages 1.0 (with some additions later; mostly in 
1.21).

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> Regards,
> Branden
> 
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?go_report=Apply&group=groff&func=&set=custom&msort=0&report_id=225&advsrch=0&bug_id=&summary=&submitted_by=0&resolution_id=0&assigned_to=0&bug_group_id=0&status_id=1&severity=0&category_id=0&plan_release_id=103&history_search=0&history_field=0&history_event=modified&history_date_dayfd=19&history_date_monthfd=12&history_date_yearfd=2022&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&boxoptionwanted=1#options
> 
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=0d85615c62d07b028b972dff38bfa7589dad8cf1
> [3] obligatory obscure cultural reference
> [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff-mission-statement.html
> 
> For fun I thought I'd see what the diffstat between 1.22.4 and master
> looked like, and filtered out files with fewer than 1,000 lines of diff.
> 
>   ChangeLog                                          | 18832 +++++++++++++++----
>   ChangeLog.122                                      |  5331 ++++++
>   NEWS                                               |  2302 ++-
>   contrib/glilypond/glilypond.pl                     |  1296 +-
>   contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man                      |  3822 ----
>   contrib/groffer/main_subs.pl                       |  2132 ---
>   contrib/mm/groff_mm.7.man                          |  2444 ++-
>   contrib/mom/om.tmac                                |  2339 ++-
>   contrib/rfc1345/rfc1345.tmac                       |  1705 ++
>   doc/groff.texi                                     | 18782 +++++++++---------
>   doc/meref.me                                       |  2241 ---
>   doc/meref.me.in                                    |  2439 +++
>   doc/ms.ms                                          |  4378 +++++
>   m4/groff.m4                                        |  1397 +-
>   man/groff.7.man                                    |  9025 +++++----
>   man/groff_char.7.man                               |  2992 +--
>   man/groff_diff.7.man                               |  5039 +++--
>   man/groff_font.5.man                               |  1252 +-
>   man/groff_tmac.5.man                               |  1575 +-
>   man/roff.7.man                                     |  2921 ++-
>   src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cpp                  |  1282 +-
>   src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.1.man                    |  1008 +-
>   src/devices/grops/grops.1.man                      |  1615 +-
>   src/preproc/eqn/eqn.1.man                          |  1621 +-
>   src/preproc/pic/pic.1.man                          |  1196 +-
>   src/preproc/refer/refer.1.man                      |  1260 +-
>   src/preproc/tbl/tbl.1.man                          |  2404 ++-
>   src/roff/groff/groff.1.man                         |  2844 +--
>   src/roff/grog/subs.pl                              |  1266 --
>   src/roff/troff/input.cpp                           |  1424 +-
>   src/roff/troff/troff.1.man                         |  1012 +-
>   tmac/an.tmac                                       |  1553 +-
>   tmac/{doc.tmac-u => doc.tmac}                      |  1218 +-
>   tmac/groff_man.7.man                               |  2613 ---
>   tmac/groff_man.7.man.in                            |  4187 +++++
>   tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man                              |  3470 ++--
>   tmac/groff_ms.7.man                                |  3508 ++--
>   tmac/hyphenex.us                                   |  1454 --
>   960 files changed, 126084 insertions(+), 72911 deletions(-)
> 
> I hope people will take me seriously when I suggest that groff's
> documentation has undergone revision.

Wow!

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