Re: [PATCH] minor fixes to Texinfo manual (and AT&T troff behavior)
Dave Kemper <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 18:52:52 -0500
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 6:05=E2=80=AFPM G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you like to commit this yourself? Thanks, I'll request you do it this time: while I'm sure the git machinery isn't rocket science, it's a learning curve I don't have the bandwidth to take on at the moment. > So that final esoteric paragraph might be a specialized case of a more > general and recent claim I make earlier in the same section. > > >> GNU 'troff' does not emit output if it has nothing to format. That sentence seems to want a qualifying adverb, based on http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68502 -- perhaps "does not necessarily emit output." This is still a contrast to AT&T troff, which (absent an error condition) always emits output.