[bug #61434] [man] want support for hyperlinked paragraph tags

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug#61434 (group groff):

This was an important follow-up commit.


commit 52a5a89c0da9f90c83441b8eb8020344a8468686
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 1 23:23:45 2024 -0600

    [man]: Back away from color management concerns.
    
    Hyperlink colors in PDF were showing a tendency to get "stuck on" when
    they shouldn't, and the extra difficulty of managing nested traps (`TP`
    followed by `UR`, for example) is proving tricky to sort out.  On top of
    that, the man(7) package historically has no cognizance of color issues
    and it's doesn't seem like a good time to start, particularly if we only
    do it for the 'pdf' output device.  Unfortunately, "pdf.tmac" doesn't
    expose a clean abstraction for "link starts here" and "link stops here",
    instead implementing a hugely featured `pdfhref` macro that attempts to
    do everything--except support bracketing the link text in a diversion,
    which our man(7) design requires.
    
    * tmac/an.tmac (an-input-trap): Set stroke color to default after
      springing `TP`'s supporting trap.
    
      (an*begin-hyperlink, MR): Stop saving the stroke color.
    
      (an*end-hyperlink, MR): Stop restoring the saved stroke color.  Set it
      to the default instead after formatting the link text.




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