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Re: [bug #63957] [mdoc] Synopsis section should not be adjusted (nor hyp
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
Re: [bug #63957] [mdoc] Synopsis section should not be adjusted (nor hyphenated) |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:43:48 -0500 |
At 2023-03-24T14:13:26+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 3/24/23 08:26, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > groff 1.22.4 output:
> >
> >
> > $ groff -mandoc -Tascii ATTIC/timerdday.mdoc | cat -s
> > mdoc warning: Empty input line #34
> >
> > Name
> > timerdday -- compute time of launch operation within window
> >
> > Synopsis
> > void timerdday(struct-timespec *earliest, struct-timespec *latest,
> > struct-timespec *resolution)
>
> Heh, and you forgot to mention that it doesn't add a trailing
> semicolon.
I didn't even notice!
> Certainly some extra adjustment space is better than the bogus 1.22.4.
> :)
It doesn't even do damage if copy-and-pasted into C source that way...
> > $ ./build/test-groff -mandoc -Tascii ATTIC/timerdday.mdoc | cat -s
>
> You forgot to remove cat -s in 1.23.0.
Sure did. But it had nothing to do. A "useless use of cat", as we used
to say in Debian...
> timerdday's API seems a bit bogus: how do you get the result of it? ;)
I'd tell you, but it's unpublished proprietary source code of AT&T...
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
Regards,
Branden
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