[Groff] Re: tag tidying up..

[Gaius Mulley]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> > here is a patch which (tidies up some of the tag handling - or at
> > least removes some of the ugliness :-).
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> >  *  documentation in groff/src/devices/grohtml/grohtml_tags.man
> >     to correct with the code. Still not finished behaviour within
> >     diversions though.
> 
> Since I want to merge this with another man page, I haven't added it
> to the CVS repository yet.  Attached is a new, revised version which
> uses standard man macros.
> 
> Please format it with -Thtml, then look at the section `TROFF TAG
> STATE'.  As can be seen, after the second .TP item the spacing is
> increased unpleasantly (look at the `ce' label) ...

thanks for spotting this. It looks like the </p><p> combination is
causing larger spacing - on .TP requests 2..n. Maybe grohtml should
use <br><br> inside tables to represent a troff .sp?
I'll investigate..

Gaius