Re: grohtml: confused about constant-width font handling
Colin Watson <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 03:20:55PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >I'm working through some Debian packages whose tests fail with groff >1.24.0.rc1. One of those is xlbiff, where there was a previous >attempt to improve the handling of constant-width font selection in https://github.com/edsantiago/xlbiff/commit/e0987fbbcd2304b389f70bbedb9ab9201c8bd7f1. > >My current plan is to add the following preamble to the affected pages: > > .ie n .ds CR R > .el .ds CR CR > >... and then just use `.ft \*(CR` in each of the places where it >currently has a conditional. On reflection, in this particular case I think these pages could just use .EX/.EE instead of messing around with fonts manually. However, the HTML output problem remains. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]