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[bug #65474] spurious "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when formatting
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
[bug #65474] spurious "warning: unbalanced 'el' request" when formatting zic(8) from TZDB project |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:11:45 -0400 (EDT) |
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65474 (group groff):
[comment #3 comment #3:]
> one can look at "groff" as being a (minimal) "code
> and style checker".
That's not the intent of groff -ww. The intent is to catch errors, not report
style issues. The groff documentation says that -ww should issue this
diagnostic only when "The 'el' request was encountered with no prior
corresponding 'ie' request." In the TZDB man page there is a prior
corresponding 'ie' request, therefore groff should not warn.
Although it might be helpful for groff to have a style checker, that should be
a separate option, and it should not be enabled by default.
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