Re: Warn about long lines

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Ralph,

On 8/22/22 10:17, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> > I fear that I might be making one of those structure definitions go
> > past the right margin, and there are so many, that it's not funny
> > rendering all of them to check
>
> No, it's clearly a job for a machine.
>
> > $ cat longline.man
> > .TH a b c d
> > .SH foo
> > .nf
> > this is a very long line that will go past the 80-col right margin, and
> > I want to be warned about it.
>
> That's two lines, and it didn't overrun the carriage here.

Thunderbird doesn't seem to like me.
I hope one day I find some time to learn how to use email properly.

> > .fi
> > $
> > $ groff -man -ww -z ./longline.man
> > $
>
> Isn't that an implicit -Tps?  Do you still want an ‘>80’ warning when
> it's not a -Tascii, etc?

I forgot the flag.  I meant -Tascii.

> Here's modified test input and an alternative way to check.
>
>      $ cat longline.man
>      .TH a b c d
>      .SH foo
>      .nf
>      this is a very long line that will go past the 80-col right margin, and \c
>      I want to be warned about it.
>      .fi
>      $ groff -Tutf8 -man -ww longline.man |
>      > awk 'length > 80 {print; e = 1} END {exit e}'
>            this is a very long line that will go past the 80-col right margin, 
> and I want to be warned about it.
>      $ echo $?
>      1
>      $

I like that use of awk(1)!
I was never an awk(1) user, but this one I can't seem to replace it with 
simpler tools.  Seems like the tool for the job!

Still, Branden and Ingo please consider this feature request.

Cheers,

Alex

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