From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-1.sys.kth.se (smtp-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.175]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id pA3F657X027662 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) by smtp-1.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4276E1564A2 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:06:00 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-1.sys.kth.se ([130.237.32.175]) by mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pjHNWYZLwnFm for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:05:59 +0100 (CET) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [193.10.49.5] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv X-KTH-rcpt-to: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Received: from ctime.my.domain (ctime.hhs.se [193.10.49.5]) by smtp-1.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5011558BF for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:05:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EB2ADD6.2030201@bsd.lv> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:05:58 +0100 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: no current date in man(7) footers References: <20111101161311.GO6817@iris.usta.de> In-Reply-To: <20111101161311.GO6817@iris.usta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv