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From: | doug dougwellington . com |
Subject: | Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X |
Date: | Mon, 3 Apr 2023 18:50:45 +0000 |
Sorry if I jumped into the middle and missed something, but what about using this to convert once?
From: nmh-workers-bounces+doug=dougwellington.com@nongnu.org <nmh-workers-bounces+doug=dougwellington.com@nongnu.org> on behalf of Ken Hornstein
<kenh@pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 11:40 AM To: nmh-workers@nongnu.org <nmh-workers@nongnu.org> Subject: Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X >The status quo is fine. It doesn't require understanding all of troff.
>Just man(7) plus the odd bit here and there. Sigh. The "odd bit" unfortunately, for me, requires a lot of knowledge that seems to take some serious roff-fu. Let's take the example you gave where the first line for a man page that uses tbl should contain: '\" t So, my question is ... what does this mean? I understand that \" is a comment, but I'm confused about the leading single quote. As a random note, this string is rather hard to search for. Also, I don't really understand how single quotes are used in roff, I guess; all of the documentation seems to assume you already know this. And it's this way for me for EVERY SINGLE BIT of "odd bit"; there's a huge pile of knowledge that is assumed you know. It's not that I'm afraid of digging into hours-long rat holes; I write programs using OpenSSL, after all. It's just a lot to deal with when I am just trying to format a nice table. And I do it so infrequently that I have to re-learn it all every time I want to edit a man page. (I did play around with tbl, and it seems like that is actually very easy so I am thinking that Anthony is is right and we should just switch to that). --Ken |
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