[bug #64018] [man, mdoc] decide on a common base paragraph indentation

[Thorsten Glaser]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #64018 (project groff):

Oh sorry, submitted too early.

The codebase is the “last” nroff I could use under the Caldera licence,
i.e. that was shipped with a BSD covered by these. The macropackages are a
conglomerate from the TUHS archives and pre-mdocml OpenBSD’s, but I invested
heavily into them to get them to mostly work (modulo missing pieces). I also
added a hack (with pre‑ and postprocessor) for 8-bit/UTF-8 support, but
that’s nowhere near mature.

I only ported nroff, not troff (since nobody has the hardware it drives any
more), and the codebase is a mess I had cleaned up a little over the years. It
builds with -O1 on ILP32 with a patched GCC 3.4.6 but GCC 4 already kills it,
and sparc has an issue i386 hasn’t (or had, the latest changes might have
solved that, but I have yet to have someone run electricity to where my
SPARCstations are in the new house and so couldn’t test that yet).

I *have* recently begun working on porting it to ILP32 GNU/Linux and newer GCC
so I can use UBSan to find the remaining issues, but that’s a low-priority
project unfortunately.

With the exception of terminfo(5)¹ I use this exclusively to build
catmanpages, but I use groff with custom fonts to build PDF manpages for the
website for the “portable subprojects” like mksh.

① “Too many text block diversions”, which probably means this cannot be
rendered with tbl(1) at all and needs GNU tbl, if I understand this
correctly.



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