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Re: Hypertext solution
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B 9 |
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Re: Hypertext solution |
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Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:21:55 -0700 |
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I'd like to submit my changes to www.tmac to the Groff project for
inclusion in the next release. I do not believe my changes break
anything, but I'd like to hear feedback from more people.
Please try moving my www.tmac (attached previously) to
/usr/share/groff/site-tmac/www.tmac and try it out on your documents.
If you haven't used the WWW package before, it is quite simple:
.URL "https://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/" "Ancient Greek Melodies" .
Thank you,
—b9
B 9 <hackerb9@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Thank you for testing it out, Nate!
>
> The missing open parenthesis is a sign the www.tmac that came with groff
> 1.22.4 is being used, not my new version. Putting it in /etc/groff/ was all I
> needed to do to, but that may be because I'm on a Debian GNU/Linux system and
> /usr/share/groff/site-tmac is a symbolic link to /etc/groff.
>
> Try putting my www.tmac in /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/www.tmac and let me
> know if that fixes it. (It's ugly to put local files in a system directory, I
> know, but groff doesn't seem to check /usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/ by
> default.)
>
> —b9
>
> Sidenote: the reason the parenthesis is disappearing is because I extended
> the .URL macro to allow "prefix-text".
>
> Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
>
> > I would say this is a very good first effort.
> >
> > I do see this in the NROFF rendered by man as shown in my Mutt session:
> >
> > In a sentence (with punctuation surrounding)
> > Testing .URL in the middle ⟨https://www.amazon.com/
> > Groff-book-continuing-saga/dp/B0006RO6LQ⟩) of this sentence with
> > paren‐
> > theses around the linked text.
> >
> > One of the opening parentheses is not showing though both closing
> > parentheses are shown.
> >
> > I see a lot of URL breaks as I have MANWIDTH=80 in my environment.
> >
> > - Nate
> >
> > --
> >
> > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."
> >
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> >
>
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