From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: -Tman with -mman
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 17:40:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111002154058.GA14208@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E887D72.9090605@bsd.lv>
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 05:04:18PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What sort of behaviour is most reasonable when providing a man
> manual to the new -Tman? I think this should be ironed out before
> the release. The mandoc manual says "-Tman only with mdoc" and, if
> man is provided to -Tman, outputs nothing (like -Tlint).
>
> It makes the most sense to me to output the original file (after
> preprocessing, I guess). All this requires is a duplicate buffer in
> read.c (conditional on -Tman being present to avoid overhead in
> normal usage). I don't like the idea of putting out an error (or
> nothing at all) because it special-cases modes for input.
Agreed, just giving back the original input (maybe reformatted) sounds
like the best approach.
Joerg
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-02 15:04 Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-10-02 15:40 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
2011-10-02 19:53 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-10-03 22:00 ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-10-03 22:18 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-10-05 9:36 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
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