Re: mandoc -man -Thtml bug: inconsistent vertical space before .TP

[Alejandro Colomar]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:27:49AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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

In fact I don't want.  A single space would trigger false positives in
the middle of the text.  I use at least 3, sometimes more (depending on
how much I feel like pressing the space bar), to get a single positive
at the tag.

> 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

I'm already using groff from git, so I'm already adapted to that.  :)

> 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.

Thank you very much!  Will do.

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> 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.



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