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

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Alex,

At 2023-10-28T17:55:50+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 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'.
> 
> 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.

You could do what I do.

'/^ +-'

Still cheaper/lazier.

Maybe I've been burned too many times by people getting space quantities
wrong in other contexts.

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

Ah, excellent.  As Thomas Dickey always says, "(report bugs)".

Regards,
Branden

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