Re: [Groff] ping: let man print volume headers like mdoc

[walter harms]

Am 16.11.2011 12:40, schrieb Ingo Schwarze:
> Hi Walter,
> 
>> Basicly it seems ok for me, ntl some (non roff note).
>> * Sun Release 4.0        Why ?
> 
> That's a comment, and my patch doesn't touch it.
> I guess whoever put it there wanted to provide an example
> how the fourth argument might look like.
> 
jup sorry my bad,
but i guess the comment that be replaced with something meaningfull


>> The names differ from what i see in the man page.
>> e.g.: Sec 4   Special files
> 
> Cannot reproduce; and indeed, tmac/doc-common in the official
> groff CVS repo has:
> 
>   .ds doc-volume-ds-4 Kernel Interfaces Manual
> 
> Maybe "Special files" is specific to your operating system
> or even the particular page you are looking at (you mentioned
> neither unless i missed it).
> 
>> Should that be in sync also ?
> 
> As far as i can see, it is.
> 
> Y

just for curiosity this is in my man page:
.....
       0   Header files (usually found in /usr/include)
       1   Executable programs or shell commands
       2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
       3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
       4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
       5   File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
       6   Games
       7   Miscellaneous (including macro  packages  and  conven-
           tions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
       8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]
....
HISTORY
 .....
   31st March 2001 - present day: Colin  Watson  <address@hidden>  is
       now developing and maintaining man-db.

re,
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>   Ingo
> 
> 
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> -----
>>>
>>> From: Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:43:27 +0100
>>> To: address@hidden
>>> Subject: [Groff] let man print volume headers like mdoc
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When the mdoc(7) .Dt macro is called without a third argument,
>>> the page header uses the default volume name associated with
>>> the second (section number) .Dt argument, controlled by the
>>> doc-volume-ds-N strings in tmac/doc-common.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, when the corresponding man(7) .TH macro is
>>> called without a fifth argument, the volume name in the page
>>> header is left blank.
>>>
>>> Yuri Pankov (of IllumOS) suggested to make the two more similar
>>> by letting man(7) fill in the default volume name as well.
>>> I like the idea - reducing gratuitious differences between
>>> mdoc(7) and man(7) seems good to me - and would like to
>>> implement the change in mandoc(1).
>>>
>>> However, keeping groff(1) and mandoc(1) in sync is even more
>>> important than synching mdoc(7) and man(7), so i'm asking for
>>> your opinion first, whether you would accept the following patch,
>>> or a variant of it.
>>>
>>> I think the strings are so short that there is no problem
>>> with having them both in doc-common and an-old.tmac;
>>> on the other hand, if you disagree, i could move them to
>>> their own file and include them from both places, but
>>> i fear the code will be uglier, whereas this looks quite nice.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>   Ingo
>>>
>>>
>>> --- tmac/an-old.tmac.orig   Fri Dec 31 08:33:09 2010
>>> +++ tmac/an-old.tmac        Sun Oct 30 22:37:29 2011
>>> @@ -145,7 +145,17 @@
>>>  .    ie (\\n[.$] > 3) .ds an-extra2 "\\$4\"
>>>  .    el               .ds an-extra2 \"Sun Release 4.0
>>>  .    ie (\\n[.$] > 4) .ds an-extra3 "\\$5\"
>>> -.    el               .ds an-extra3 \"System Programmer's Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'1'  .ds an-extra3 General Commands Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'2'  .ds an-extra3 System Calls Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'3'  .ds an-extra3 Library Functions Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'3p' .ds an-extra3 Perl Programmers Reference Guide
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'4'  .ds an-extra3 Kernel Interfaces Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'5'  .ds an-extra3 File Formats Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'6'  .ds an-extra3 Games Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'7'  .ds an-extra3 Miscellaneous Information Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'8'  .ds an-extra3 System Manager's Manual
>>> +.    el .ie '\\$2'9'  .ds an-extra3 Kernel Developer's Manual
>>> +.    el               .ds an-extra3
>>>  .    ds an-init
>>>  \\..
>>>  .
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