[bug #66103] manpage-10n project: issues in man pages

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #66103 (group groff):

At 2024-09-14T13:17:52-0400, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> regarding po4a macros - I'm also sometimes learning by Martin Quinson
> (maintainer of po4a) reply to my bug reports there.The best source I know of
> is Locale::Po4a::Man(1). 

Ah, thanks--I had poked my nose all over perlpod and podlators stuff.

> Thanks for handling the ISO/IEC reference.
> 
> As you reopend this, I notice the following when updating the markers in
> manpages-l10n:
> 
> Wouldn't it be the following correction:
> 
> B<-r\\ >I<cnumeric-expression> -> B<-r\\ c>I<numeric-expression>
> i.e. put the "c" into the bold part as well, as it is not part of the
numeric
> expression? Or did I misunderstand your rationale?

No.  "c" is a parameter and so is "numeric-expression".

It has for decades been possible to do the following with *roff
formatters.


PDP-11 simulator V3.8-1
Disabling XQ
@boot
New Boot, known devices are hp ht rk rl rp tm vt
: rl(0,0)rl2unix
mem = 177856
# Restricted rights: Use, duplication, or disclosure
is subject to restrictions stated in your contract with
Western Electric Company, Inc.
Thu Sep 22 22:20:25 EDT 1988

login: dmr
$ echo '.tm n=\nn' | nroff -rn1+2+2+1
n=6


In the foregoing, "n" is a single-letter register name.  I could have
chosen "a", "z", or more exotic possibilities, some of which would have
required escaping in a shell command.

Regards,
Branden



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