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Re: [idea] troff -Troff
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G. Branden Robinson |
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Re: [idea] troff -Troff |
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Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:07:38 -0600 |
Hi Alex,
At 2024-02-16T19:28:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:49:52AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > And so it is with the roff languages. An arbitrary number of macro
> > expansions may have taken place.
>
> Hmmm. But maybe approximating by saying "the original equation had
> something like '5'" could decent enough?
Probably not, if I understand your use of "approximately". :)
> It's not really what it was, but at least it means the same thing
> (hopefully). Or by the moment you're about to produce the trout you
> don't have anything that can resemble valid roff(7) anymore?
Yes. That's what I mean.
> > My own knowledge of it is far advanced over what it was 5 years ago,
> > but I do not feel equal to the task of scaling that mountain yet.
> >
> > So I think this is unlikely to happen soon.
>
> I have patience. :)
>
> I'll keep pushing you from time to time with NP-Hard and NP-Complete
> problems.
That's fine. I resemble Bob the Angry Flower, and have a hard head.
https://www.angryflower.com/245.html
> > [2] ...the presentation of which in _The Unix Programming
> > Environment_, my labored explanation is but a pale shadow. I
> > wish someone would update that book for modern times; the
> > currents of history have been particularly cruel to its
> > old-school lex and yacc usage, which is some of the most
> > valuable material in it.
>
> Talking of yacc, maybe you could have a look at a bugfix I wrote
> recently for some yacc code in shadow-utils. Nobody involved in the
> project seems to understand it anymore. :)
>
> <https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/952>
Ah, it appears that 15 hours ago, this issue was resolved with my
assistance, which is good because I couldn't have +1ed the patch anyway.
The syntax looks fine but I'd've needed to understand more of the
application-level context to make sense of things.
Regards,
Branden
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Re: [idea] troff -Troff, Larry Kollar, 2024/02/23