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Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3


From: Deri
Subject: Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:25:05 +0000

On Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:44:32 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The only other thing I would even think of proposing is taking the man
> macro package documentation _out_ of the Texinfo manual, since
> groff_man.7.man is where that material is actively maintained.  I
> already have a git stash of that chance so it wouldn't be hard to do
> (all I'd leave would be the man.local example of DEC Ultrix man
> extensions).  There are several instances of claims that the Texinfo
> manual is complete and authoritative when it is neither.  mdoc is not
> documented within it, groff(7) claims that groff_diff(7) is the
> authoritative document of GNU extensions to classical troff, and so
> forth.

I'm interested in the groff book which is currently generated from the texinfo 
document. I have done some work which merges texinfo source and several man 
pages to produce an indexed pdf. It is not ready for this release, but I'm 
hoping to get it accepted for the next.

Deri






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