Re: [groff] address@hidden: Bug#919890: groff-base: Incorrect page numbers position when exporting BSD-style (mdoc) documents to other formats (ps, etc)]

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:18:29PM +0000:
> > but much the same problem exists; page numbers are printed on the left
> > of odd-numbered pages and on the right of even-numbered pages,
> 
> Isn't that what one would most often want?  When somebody prints a
> manual page putting two virtual pages side-by-side on each sheet
> in landscape orientation, then page 1 ends up on the left side and
> page 2 on the right side of the first sheet, so the odd numbers
> should be on the left, as indeed they are.
[...]
> Maybe we should change the man macros rather than the mdoc macros?

I don't think I have any stake in this either way, except that man and
mdoc should be mutually-consistent, and IMO we should document the
choice made in both groff_man(7) and groff_mdoc(7) with a brief comment
on the rationale to head off future questions.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden