* groff/mandoc rendering difference with Lk
@ 2014-11-19 8:55 Anthony J. Bentley
2014-11-19 18:02 ` Ingo Schwarze
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From: Anthony J. Bentley @ 2014-11-19 8:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: discuss
Hi,
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Lk http://example.com/ The example homepage .
This fragment renders as so in mandoc:
SEE ALSO
The example homepage: http://example.com/.
But it renders like this in groff:
SEE ALSO
The: http://example.com/ example homepage.
Unless this is a recent behavior change in groff (and thus a bug),
mandoc should probably match the rendering so that mandoc users
don't forget to quote the arguments.
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* Re: groff/mandoc rendering difference with Lk
2014-11-19 8:55 groff/mandoc rendering difference with Lk Anthony J. Bentley
@ 2014-11-19 18:02 ` Ingo Schwarze
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From: Ingo Schwarze @ 2014-11-19 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anthony J. Bentley; +Cc: discuss
Hi Anthony,
Anthony J. Bentley wrote on Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:55:54AM -0700:
> .Sh SEE ALSO
> .Lk http://example.com/ The example homepage .
>
> This fragment renders as so in mandoc:
>
> SEE ALSO
> The example homepage: http://example.com/.
>
> But it renders like this in groff:
>
> SEE ALSO
> The: http://example.com/ example homepage.
>
> Unless this is a recent behavior change in groff (and thus a bug),
As far as i know, the .Lk macro is a groff addition.
Heirloom, for example, doesn't have it.
Similar macros taking free text arguments - An Cd Fd Mt Sx -
all accept an unlimited number of arguments, so .Lk should, too.
Only a few macros taking very special syntax elements as arguments
- Lb In St - limit their number of arguments in this way.
The odd behaviour of .Lk does not improve usability.
No one in their right mind would put the text following a macro
on the same line. Even if it works and the macro stops processing
arguments after a fixed number of arguments, it is much clearer
to put following text on the next line.
> mandoc should probably match the rendering so that mandoc users
> don't forget to quote the arguments.
This is one of the cases where i considered the behaviour of groff
so insane that i consciously chose to not follow. I think groff
should be fixed, i just didn't come round to do it.
Yours,
Ingo
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