Re: No 6.05/.01 pdf book available

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On 2023-08-13 23:55, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2023-08-13T22:47:34+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> Aha - Alex says .set:
> [...]
>>> 	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00213.html
>>
>> We might as well make it official in suffixes(7).
>>
>> 	.set	troff(1) typeset output
> 
> I don't think this convention is very widely used.  troff(1) output is
> so seldom dealt with by users that it is little wonder to me that no
> convention has arisen here.
> 
> As noted earlier somewhere, I prefer ".trout" for AT&T-compatible
> troff(1) output, and ".grout" for GNU troff(1) output. Strictly, the
> latter suffix would only be necessary if the syntax extension for
> multi-line device control commands is used, and I don't know for sure
> that late-vintage DWB troff or Research Unix troff didn't support it.
> Things got very murky with AT&T troff after the company decided it to
> try using it as a cash cow.

Hmm, then let's leave it open to discussion then.

> 
>> Which made me realize .roff is not documented.  Branden, as the
>> maintainer of groff(1), would you mind checking that page and adding
>> all the groff(1)-related suffixes you find (or actually, that you
>> don't find)?
> 
> Sure, but I've got other things on the burner right now and might need a
> reminder.
> 

Sure, I'll ping you.  I see you're fixing many of my bug reports.
Thanks for the TS register, and more for making it default to 2!  ;)

Cheers,
Alex

> Regards,
> Branden

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