From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: no current date in man(7) footers
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:05:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB2ADD6.2030201@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111101161311.GO6817@iris.usta.de>
> i'm currently leaving out the very last (footer) lines when doing
> systematic output comparisons of groff and mandoc because they
> differ gratuitiously in a number of ways.
>
> Arguably, none of the ways to format the footer are really better
> or worse than others, but i'd like to get rid of gratuitious
> differences and simplify comparison scripts.
>
> So, expect a series of small diffs to get the mandoc footer lines
> in line with groff. Here is the first one.
>
> In man(7), mandoc uses the current date when .TH sets no date,
> but groff uses the empty string instead.
Ingo,
Yes, please check this in.
Thanks,
Kristaps
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2011-11-01 16:13 Ingo Schwarze
2011-11-03 15:05 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
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