On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> Ingo Schwarze wrote on Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 02:04:46AM +0200:
> 
> >  3. teach list_continues() that \[bu] is the same as \(bu.
> 
> This part is now fixed, too, see the commit below.
> 
> The guesswork required to deal with .IP certainly isn't perfect yet,
> but lets walk one step at a time, and let's start with issues that
> actually cause inconvenience in real-world manual pages.
> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo
> 
> 
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Support the GNU-specific syntax ".IP \\[bu]" for bullet lists in man(7) 
> pages that Alejandro Colomar recommends in the "Lists" subsection of
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html#STYLE_GUIDE .
> 
> For example, this will improve HTML formatting of the first list in 
> the subsection "Feature test macros understood by glibc" on the page
> https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages/ftm.7.en.html .
> 
> Issue reported by Alejandro Colomar <alx at kernel dot org>.

LGTM.  Thanks,
Alex

> 
> Modified Files:
> --------------
>     mandoc:
>         man_html.c
> 
> Revision Data
> -------------
> Index: man_html.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/man_html.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.185
> retrieving revision 1.186
> diff -Lman_html.c -Lman_html.c -u -p -r1.185 -r1.186
> --- man_html.c
> +++ man_html.c
> @@ -433,10 +433,12 @@ list_continues(const struct roff_node *n
>  	s2 = n2 == NULL ? "" : n2->string;
>  	c1 = strcmp(s1, "*") == 0 ? '*' :
>  	     strcmp(s1, "\\-") == 0 ? '-' :
> -	     strcmp(s1, "\\(bu") == 0 ? 'b' : ' ';
> +	     strcmp(s1, "\\(bu") == 0 ? 'b' :
> +	     strcmp(s1, "\\[bu]") == 0 ? 'b' : ' ';
>  	c2 = strcmp(s2, "*") == 0 ? '*' :
>  	     strcmp(s2, "\\-") == 0 ? '-' :
> -	     strcmp(s2, "\\(bu") == 0 ? 'b' : ' ';
> +	     strcmp(s2, "\\(bu") == 0 ? 'b' :
> +	     strcmp(s2, "\\[bu]") == 0 ? 'b' : ' ';
>  	return c1 != c2 ? '\0' : c1 == 'b' ? '*' : c1;
>  }
>  
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