[bug #68515] [groff] revise or discard hcode-request-copies-spec-char-code.sh test script

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:17:53 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #68515 (group groff):

At 2026-07-14T10:03:48-0400, Dave wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #68515 (group groff):
>
> [comment #2 comment #2:]
>> But it does not match the "expected output" in the comments of the
>> script.
>
> This "expected output" comes from examples in bug #66054.  But in
> comment 19 there, Branden explains why the formerly expected output is
> no longer expected:
>
> "In _groff_ 1.23.0, é had a hyphenation code of 0.  In _groff_ 1.24.0,
> it has a hyphenation code of 233 (because these are set up in
> 'latin1.tmac' now)."
>
> So as of 1.24.0, the latin1.tmac setup file is invalidating the test
> that hcode-request-copies-spec-char-code.sh tries to run.
>
> While this doesn't entirely explain the July-10-build behavior, we do
> now know the script isn't testing .hcode per se.

Ahh.

> But it _is_ still testing actual hyphenation behavior, which is the
> aspect of hyphenation codes that users care about, and something
> hcode-request-works.sh does not do.  But there might be other tests
> that already cover that (I haven't looked).

I don't think we have a lot of coverage of "high-level" hyphenation
behavior; we better cover fiddly little atomic aspects of behavior.
Which is important, but it's not everything.

src/roff/groff/tests/hcode-request-works.sh
src/roff/groff/tests/hla-request-works.sh
src/roff/groff/tests/hw-request-skips-only-invalid-arguments.sh
src/roff/groff/tests/hys-request-works.sh

(By the way, I've got unit tests for the `hpf` and `hpfa` requests on
the cooker.)

If this test, hcode-request-copies-spec-char-code.sh, works as-is as a
sort of integration test for hyphenation, then we can rename and
annotate it accordingly.

Maybe "hyphenation-integration.sh"...?



    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68515>

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

signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 228 B)