Re: groff-1.19.2 difference: indent

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for reporting.
I have updated the TODO entry, see below.

I think you are right, both aspects should be improved in mandoc.

Yours,
  Ingo


Index: TODO
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RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/TODO,v
retrieving revision 1.120
diff -u -r1.120 TODO
--- TODO	28 Jul 2011 14:37:39 -0000	1.120
+++ TODO	18 Sep 2011 16:38:44 -0000
@@ -264,6 +266,9 @@
 - When .Fn arguments exceed one output line, all but the first
   should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3);
   reported by jmc@ on discuss@  Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100
+  reported again by Nicolas Joly via wiz@  Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:24:40 +0200
+  Also, we don't want to break the line within the argument of:
+  .Fa "chtype tl"
 
 - .Ns should work when called at the end of an input line, see
   the following code in vi(1):


Thomas Klausner wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 06:24:40PM +0200:

> Nicolas Joly reports a few differences between groff 1.19.2 and
> 1.11.1.
> 
> I've verified against 1.11.7, only one of them is still there:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr> -----
> 
> 2) In SYNOPSIS, functions with big prototypes are not indented after
>    line wrap, which can occur between argument type and name. Check
>    wborder(3).
> 
> 20,21c20,21
> <      wborder(WINDOW *win, chtype ls, chtype rs, chtype ts, chtype bs,
> <          chtype tl, chtype tr, chtype bl, chtype br);
> ---
> >      wborder(WINDOW *win, chtype ls, chtype rs, chtype ts, chtype bs, chtype
> >      tl, chtype tr, chtype bl, chtype br);
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> Additionally, I've also noticed on this example that "chtype" and "tl"
> are split across lines. The source for this is:
> .Fa "chtype tl"
> I wonder why it's split and not handled as one item?
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