Hi Mike,
At 2023-01-14T04:49:08+0000, Mike Fulton wrote:
The last line of the makevarescape.sed is:
```
s|[^ ]/\+|&\\\\:|g
```
I do not understand why it is making the change it is,
It is adding hyphenless break points to file specifications and URLs.
This is mentioned in the groff_man(7) page.
When rendered by groff to a TTY or PostScript output de‐
vice,
Contact
.MT fred.foonly@\:fubar.net
Fred Foonly
.ME
for more information.
displays as: “Contact Fred Foonly ⟨fred.foonly@
fubar.net⟩ for more information.”.
The use of ‘\:’ to insert hyphenless discretionary
breaks is a groff extension and can be omitted.
The overall function of makevarescape.sed is explained around line 825
of the "Makefile.am" file.
but if I do
```
./configure
--prefix=/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine<mailto:--prefix=/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine>
```
This looks like it might have been double-pasted...is that right?
On my Mac, or a similar type of line under z/OS, then the man pages
seem to have strange escape sequences added to them. For example, on
my Mac, this results in the line:
```
.I
/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/\:tty\-char.tmac<mailto:/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/\:tty\-char.tmac>
```
Being generated in the ./src/roff/nroff/nroff.1 file
Maybe it wasn't double-pasted. If not, then I feel like a ./configure
prefix setting of this complexity was not anticipated by groff, and
possibly not by other software using GNU Autotools, either.
Please confirm:
You can
cd
/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine<mailto:--prefix=/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine>