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 o8PME77N007132 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:14:07 -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 1Ozd0Q-0007kG-4q; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozd0Q-0006GJ-3q for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +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 1Ozd0Q-00029p-2r for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozd0Q-0005Cj-18 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0200 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Bl bullet. Message-ID: <20100925221406.GF23359@iris.usta.de> References: <4C9E2AAC.6060309@bsd.lv> 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: <4C9E2AAC.6060309@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Hi Kristaps, > What the hell is with groff's `Bl -bullet'? > "+\b+\bo\bo" makes no sense to me. I suspect some devices render (or rendered?) that as real bullet and not just a bold 'o', by printing a bold '+' and a bold 'o' in the same place. I can't confirm that, though; neither my VGA glass console (TERM=vt220) nor my xterm (TERM=xterm) does so. On both devices, it looks just the same as "o\bo". And i don't have a wire matrix printer around right now. ;-) > Do we really need to preserve this behaviour, or can we just use > o\bo as it is right now in the code? Well, it is certainly not critical, and i admit i can't provide really good reasons for it. On the other hand, it is a gratuitious difference. What does it cost fixing it? Or is there any downside when changing to "+\b+\bo\bo"? Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv