Re: man pages, font escape sequences, and font warnings (was: groff man(7), the PD macro, and compact lists)
"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 16:44:16 -0500
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At 2026-05-12T20:52:51+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> It makes no sense to warn about a font in the nroff mode (nroff) as
> only different styles (R, I, B, BI) are present.
>
> Just do not report about such in nroff mode.
I disagree.
1. I dislike the warning configuration operating differently based on
other GNU troff parameters. Doing so violates orthogonality.
2. The warning catches real problems, even in nroff mode.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771162/grep-error-warning-cannot-select-font-i
Regards,
Branden
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