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

G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-15T12:05:24Z

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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

> 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."
;-)

Regards,
Branden