Re: Running the grohtml pipeline as a pipeline

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Branden,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 05:45:14PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2024-03-22T21:24:10+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Heh, we're comparing different things.  I'm comparing `eqn -Tps` to
> > nothing at all, while you're comparing `eqn -Tps` to `eqn -Thtml`.  If
> > I diff the same things you're diffing, then I see the same as you.
> 
> Ahh.  Okay.  Yes, I see it now and can reproduce the problem with 1.23.0
> and Git HEAD.  I'd bet it's in 1.22.4 and 1.22.3, too.

Nice.

> I've always wondered why grohtml wants to express indentation in terms
> of a percentage of available browser window[1] width.

Ahh, so if I change the window width, the indentation changes.  Funny!

> Maybe I should do with grohtml what наб accused me of doing with mdoc:

Any links to that?  Sounds like a funny discussion.  :D

> just stick my fingers in and start poking.  I hadn't imagined that
> anyone was actually _fond_ of groff mdoc(7)'s typographical choices on
> typesetters, but I was mistaken.  With grohtml, there may be some, but
> there's concrete evidence that a lot of people weren't.

I was actually a bit surprised that Paul Eggert mentioned grohtml(1) as
an improvement over man2html(1).  While man2html(1) is ancient and quite
bad... grohtml(1) output is on par with that.  Let's improve that!  :)

> Regards,
> Branden
> 
> [1] or whatever the proper name for it is in HTML standardese

Have a lovely night!
Alex

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