From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Debian-exim@smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.185.217]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6JH9TDA024161 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:09:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1OatqI-0000Aj-HZ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:28 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OatqI-0005Sv-GO for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:26 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OatqI-00075y-Ew for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:26 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OatqI-0007CN-61 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:26 +0200 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:25 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Nested displays? Message-ID: <20100719170925.GD11054@iris.usta.de> References: <4C443A36.6090201@bsd.lv> <20100719120350.GI30454@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100719120350.GI30454@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Hi Jason, hi Kristaps, Jason McIntyre wrote on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:03:26PM +0100: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:42:46PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote: >> Can anybody think of a reason why display types (`Bd', `D1', `Dl') >> shouldn't be nested? Enclosed is a patch that downgrades the message >> to ERROR (from FATAL) and lets these through. > well, it doesn;t make sense to nest displays, does it? i can;t think of > why you would ever want to. don;t tell me we have examples of this in > our pages... No longer: From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:39:21 -0700 (MST) To: source-changes@cvs.openbsd.org Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/02/18 06:39:21 Modified files: share/man/man7 : mdoc.samples.7 share/man/man8 : intro.8 usr.bin/oldrdist: oldrdist.1 usr.sbin/openssl: openssl.1 Log message: Our groff does not handle all cases of nested displays properly, so resolve the contradiction in the manual whether it's allowed or not in favour of "not allowed" for now, shelving my diff to support nested displays in mandoc(1) for later consideration. Found by and unbreaking the build with mandoc(1). Feedback and OK jmc@ -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv