Re: Peter Schaffter's install-font script will ship in groff 1.24

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:29:17 -0600

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Hi Walter,

At 2025-11-16T12:36:05+0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> Peter knows me somewhat (and although I don't know him personally,
> without exaggeration, I consider him a friend), I know he won't mind
> what I'm going to say (and he'll probably agree).
> 
> Among other points, taking into account that one of the goals in this
> release is:
> 
>    1.  document "install-font.bash" script (bug #58831, Need Info)
> 
> And Peter's script includes *a whole man page* in its body, I assume
> that script will be sanitized before including it in the release.

Probably.

> My advice is that, at the very least, you remove the color escapes
> (\033)

Last month I submitted a patch to GNU Bash to do something similar,[1]
and Chet incorporated it.

> and bashisms, to make it portable.
> 
> Finally, I don't remember presently the causes, but that script didn't
> work for me in the occasions I tried it, this is why I wrote my own
> version:
> 
>   https://en.roquesor.com/groff.html
> 
> Under the title "What my script does that others don't do" you'll find
> other improvements that could be added to the script.

Worth looking at, for sure.

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-10/msg00162.html

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