Re: Improved handling of literals in -man.

[Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>]

On 08/07/2011 20:23, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Kristaps,
>
> Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 03:10:28PM +0200:
>
>> Enclosed is a patch that considerably simplifies and improves the
>> handling of literals in -man.
>
> Err, no.
> It considerably breaks literal handling and removes functionality.
>
> Here is a (possibly partial) list of what breaks:
>
>    /usr/src/regress/usr.bin/mandoc/man/nf/indent
>      - Long lines now wrap even in literal mode.
>
>    /usr/src/regress/usr.bin/mandoc/man/nf/indent
>    /usr/src/regress/usr.bin/mandoc/man/nf/args
>    /usr/src/regress/usr.bin/mandoc/man/IP/literal
>    /usr/src/regress/usr.bin/mandoc/man/TP/literal
>      - Regular text right after .fi ends up one the same line
>        as the last line of the text in the literal block.
>
>    c2ph(1):
>      - Lines containing nothing but "\&" get lost.
>
> Actually, there is also one thing this seems to fix:
>
>    .ft B
>    .nf
>    some text
>    .fi
>    .ft P
>
> That's supposed to produce bold literal text, which currently mandoc
> does not do.  See cvs(1) for an example, search for "1 month ago".
>
> At the end of the day, this patch causes so much noise that i'm
> giving up on doing a full regression report.  I don't really feel
> like reading through a 150 thousand line diff right now.  :-o

Meh... I do know that the current approach is flawed (given certain 
input, the margin-restructuring in the MANT_LITERAL can cause bananas 
output), so I'll take some time to download -current and work with your 
manual-difference patch to construct some better diffs...

Thanks,

Kristaps
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