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Re: [groff] address@hidden: Bug#919890: groff-base: Incorrect page numbe
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Ingo Schwarze |
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Re: [groff] address@hidden: Bug#919890: groff-base: Incorrect page numbers position when exporting BSD-style (mdoc) documents to other formats (ps, etc)] |
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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:04:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hi Colin,
Colin Watson wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:18:29PM +0000:
> Would any mdoc folks like to have a look at this? Details differ in
> 1.22.4 and this patch doesn't quite apply directly,
That's not a problem; if we decide that we want to change it, i can
easily apply the patch by hand.
> but much the same problem exists; page numbers are printed on the left
> of odd-numbered pages and on the right of even-numbered pages,
Isn't that what one would most often want? When somebody prints a
manual page putting two virtual pages side-by-side on each sheet
in landscape orientation, then page 1 ends up on the left side and
page 2 on the right side of the first sheet, so the odd numbers
should be on the left, as indeed they are.
> when one would normally expect the opposite.
In a book or journal, yes, assuming the usual convention that "a la une"
is the outside of the front cover and page 2 is the inside of the
front cover.
However, the command
groff -man -rD1 -Tps ssh_config.5
Does not produce any document that could be printed as a book or journal;
in particular, it generates no title page, and the main text starts
right on page 1.
So i don't see how the argument about books or journals could apply.
Maybe we should change the man macros rather than the mdoc macros?
Yours,
Ingo