On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:20:54AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 327-2 (but I prepared the diff against xterm-330) > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Hi Thomas, > > Here's a patch for various markup bugs and inconsistencies in the xterm > man page. > > 01. The local macro definitions for bP and NS were testing the values of > registers which were likely to be undefined; e.g. > "./xterm-330/xterm.man:64: warning: number register `.I' not defined" thanks - someone reported a problem with the same macro in ncurses. (I'll have to make a script to check for other instances, since I've used bullets in a lot of places - I've a to-do item for that anyway). For the rest, I'll pick through in case there's something I find that's an unnecessary groffism (but likely will just apply most/all of the change). > Make them test instead simply for "n" (nroff mode, as opposed to > troff mode), since that appears to be the intention. > > 02. Use the \(ha, \(ga, and \(ti character escapes instead of ^`~ > literals, since these produce full-sized spacing glyphs instead of > small ones intended as combining characters on troff output devices. > > 03. Use \- character escape in (especially in examples) when an ASCII > "hyphen-minus" is intended; ensures that the correct glyph can be > cut and pasted from the man page both from TTY and PDF output > devices. :-) It would have been nice if groff hadn't reversed common usage here. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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