Re: grohtml: confused about constant-width font handling

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 03:20:56PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>  $ cat t.1
>  .TH T 1
>  .SH NAME
>  t \- a test
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  .ft CR
>  constant-width text
>  $ ./test-groff -ww -man -Thtml t.1
>  [...]
>  <p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">constant-width
>  text</p>
>
>So there's no warning, but also no actual constant-width output.  Am I 
>holding it wrong somehow, or is this broken?

Further confusion with groff 1.23.0.  ".nf" then ".ft C" results in 
<pre>.  ".ft C" on its own does not result in <tt> even though you might 
think it would based on the behaviour in combination with ".nf".  ".ft 
CR" has no effect with or without ".nf".

I can see why the author of this page decided to use ".ft C" for the 
HTML device even though it doesn't seem to actually make any sense, 
since it _works_ in 1.23.0 - but doesn't any more.  What's going on?

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [[email protected]]