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Re: rc3: groff man pages truncated by mandoc(1)
From: |
Alejandro Colomar |
Subject: |
Re: rc3: groff man pages truncated by mandoc(1) |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:41:04 +0100 |
Hi Branden,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 19:17 G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> At 2023-02-21T19:06:21+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > Michael last updated man7.org back in September 2021 (AFAIR).
>
> No indeed. He updated as recently as December 2022.
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_by_project.html
Hmmm, interesting. It seems the Linux man-pages is one of the very few
projects he didn't update :(
>
> Note "Extraction date".
>
Yep, the only one still from 2021-08 is the Linux man-pages. I hope he's
working on updating them (maybe my recent changes to the colophon, and
similar stuff has broken his scripts --I predicted that might happen--,
although he didn't mention anything).
> > Did it really affect your groff pages?
>
> Oh, yes--badly.
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/groff.1.html#See_also
>
> > Was MR already implemented back then?
>
> Yup.
>
> commit 999f5083158c77871efdcbbbc072df25039b021f
> Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 5 20:16:36 2021 +1100
>
> [man]: Add `MR` macro for man page xrefs.
>
Yep, if he updated a couple of months ago, I expect that :/
Cheers,
Alex
> Regards,
> Branden
>