[bug #64355] [libdriver, gropdf] accept '-' as synonym for '_' in directive names

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64355>

                 Summary: [libdriver,gropdf] accept '-' as synonym for '_' in
directive names
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:37:12 AM UTC
                Category: General
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Tue 27 Jun 2023 06:37:12 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
I find it clumsy that multi-word directive names in device and font
description files use '_' instead of '-' to separate words.  Perhaps this is
because I don't subscribe to the sermon preached by many C language
programmers that everything in the world should look like C.

This would pleasantly pave the way for some modest reforms like
'thin-space-width' and 'hair-space-width' (see comment #6 of bug #55154) and
synonymous alternate spellings of existing directives.  Consider
'paper-format', 'size-scale', 'has-t-command', 'unit-width' (maybe this one
should have a more distinct and communicative synonym, like 'design-size' [but
see grodvi(1) :-/ ]), and 'space-width'.







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