[bug #68261] [man] offer advice on (not) using Courier/monospace/typewritten font in man pages

Update of bug #68261 (group groff):

                  Status:                    None => In Progress
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.25.0

    _______________________________________________________

Follow-up Comment #11:

[comment #10 comment #10:]
> Thanks (again) for all the info.

And I in turn appreciate your patience with all of it.  :)

> The font remapping seems like a good choice to mention for people in my
> situation ...

Acknowledged.  I've got the following update to the "man.local" file in my
working copy; expect it in my next push.  I'll also cover this issue in a
revision of _groff_man_style_(7).


$ git diff --cached 
diff --git a/tmac/man.local b/tmac/man.local
index d01988c09..4385d2a26 100644
--- a/tmac/man.local
+++ b/tmac/man.local
@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@
 .\" hyperlink escape sequences that they don't understand.
 .\" .if n .if !r U .nr U 0
 .\"
-.\" "CW" is not a portable font name, but some man pages use it anyway.
-.\" Uncomment this to suppress warnings produced by such pages.  This
-.\" test remaps the font to roman ("R") on nroff (terminal) devices.
-.\" You might prefer to remap it to bold ("B") instead.
+.\" "C" and "CW" are not portable font names, but some man pages use
+.\" them anyway, and some automated man page generators produce them.
+.\" Uncomment these to suppress warnings produced by such pages.  The
+.\" tests remap each font to roman ("R") on nroff (terminal) devices,
+.\" which is how they traditionally appear.  You might prefer remapping
+.\" them to bold ("B") instead.
+.\" .if n .ftr C R
 .\" .if n .ftr CW R
 .\"
 .\" A de facto standard URL format for man pages is recognized




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68261>

_______________________________________________
Message sent via Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iHUEABYIAB0WIQQk97aszIMMAvLLwm6qLAuaBUf3TgUCagQslwAKCRCqLAuaBUf3
TgaVAQCs0o/lzRUjh+sFfSYb+sEiXHK77T6ESMJz7UaW+iXjqAD6A0SMJAeuM/XO
bTqx7p3JlOFVNkb14lXwR4xPFCXknAA=
=ZWv1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----