Re: [Groff] ping: let man print volume headers like mdoc

[walter harms]

Am 16.11.2011 09:43, schrieb Ingo Schwarze:
> Hi,
> 
> do you hold any opinion on this one?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Ingo
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> -----
> 
> From: Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:43:27 +0100
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Groff] let man print volume headers like mdoc
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When the mdoc(7) .Dt macro is called without a third argument,
> the page header uses the default volume name associated with
> the second (section number) .Dt argument, controlled by the
> doc-volume-ds-N strings in tmac/doc-common.
> 
> On the other hand, when the corresponding man(7) .TH macro is
> called without a fifth argument, the volume name in the page
> header is left blank.
> 
> Yuri Pankov (of IllumOS) suggested to make the two more similar
> by letting man(7) fill in the default volume name as well.
> I like the idea - reducing gratuitious differences between
> mdoc(7) and man(7) seems good to me - and would like to
> implement the change in mandoc(1).
> 
> However, keeping groff(1) and mandoc(1) in sync is even more
> important than synching mdoc(7) and man(7), so i'm asking for
> your opinion first, whether you would accept the following patch,
> or a variant of it.
> 
> I think the strings are so short that there is no problem
> with having them both in doc-common and an-old.tmac;
> on the other hand, if you disagree, i could move them to
> their own file and include them from both places, but
> i fear the code will be uglier, whereas this looks quite nice.
> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo
> 
> 
> --- tmac/an-old.tmac.orig     Fri Dec 31 08:33:09 2010
> +++ tmac/an-old.tmac  Sun Oct 30 22:37:29 2011
> @@ -145,7 +145,17 @@
>  .    ie (\\n[.$] > 3) .ds an-extra2 "\\$4\"
>  .    el               .ds an-extra2 \"Sun Release 4.0
>  .    ie (\\n[.$] > 4) .ds an-extra3 "\\$5\"
> -.    el               .ds an-extra3 \"System Programmer's Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'1'  .ds an-extra3 General Commands Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'2'  .ds an-extra3 System Calls Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'3'  .ds an-extra3 Library Functions Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'3p' .ds an-extra3 Perl Programmers Reference Guide
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'4'  .ds an-extra3 Kernel Interfaces Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'5'  .ds an-extra3 File Formats Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'6'  .ds an-extra3 Games Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'7'  .ds an-extra3 Miscellaneous Information Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'8'  .ds an-extra3 System Manager's Manual
> +.    el .ie '\\$2'9'  .ds an-extra3 Kernel Developer's Manual
> +.    el               .ds an-extra3
>  .    ds an-init
>  \\..
>  .


Basicly it seems ok for me, ntl some (non roff note).
* Sun Release 4.0        Why ?
The names differ from what i see in the man page.
e.g.: Sec 4   Special files

Should that be in sync also ?

re,
 wh