Re: [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table (was: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: ...))

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Deri,

On 12/17/22 22:26, Deri wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> This is a bug in my perl script which assembles the Linux Manpage Book,
> nothing to do with groff, tbl or gropdf, just a bad habit I have of scrubbing
> leading spaces before parsing a line, normally fine, but disastrous when the
> space is intended to protect a full stop being the first character.

Ahh, makes sense.

I thought it could be a bug in groff, since I had seen the same issue last year, 
I think with grohtml (but I'm talking from memory).  Maybe Branden remembers.

> For this reason, if you find issues with the book it probably is not relevent
> to the groff list, since it is more likely to be an issue with code which is
> just a few hours old. Any faults, or changes you would like, please send to
> me, since it is not relevent to the groff list.

Understood!

I'm impatient to see that script :)

Cheers,

Alex

> Cheers
>
> Deri

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