[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:27:49 -0500 |
At 2023-10-24T12:31:04+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> In less(1) I use similar heuristics to find what I want: '/ --unused'
> will get me exactly where I expect.
You might want to adapt this habit to '/ +--unused'. (1) It's less to
type and (2) in groff 1.24.0, the base paragraph inset will shrink to
5n.[1] What you have will still work, but using an explicit quantity of
spaces doesn't feel robust to me.
> Do you know anyone blind who reads manual pages? I would be
> interested in knowing their opinion.
I do; former Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman is, and does. You might
reach out to him at hartmans@debian.org.
Regards,
Branden
[1]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=5d2e49f8182afc9bf210b7f6dd18e465319fef7b
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=ab9e82cd9716d929051eedfb104d227a02c964e5
I've been wordsmithing some terminology reforms since then.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/23
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/23
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/24
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP,
G. Branden Robinson <=
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/28
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/28
- Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP, Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/28