Re: [PATCH 14/52] man/curs_color.3x: Recast.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Thomas,

At 2023-12-24T11:10:14-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I didn't notice any new warnings - and used Debian testing for one of
> my test-builds.  "lintian --pedantic -v" on the manpage package is
> silent.

I got a surprise, too--I saw that you added quotation-string definitions
to curs_legacy.3x, but when I generated dumps of the entire ncurses man
page corpus to text and PDF formats, I never got warnings about the
strings being undefined despite passing "-ww" to groff.  Now that I've
thought about it for 5 seconds, I realize why: I catenate all of the man
page source documents together for formatting, so any existing
definitions in "early" pages remain available for "later" documents,
because each page that defines strings doesn't undefine them at the end.
(And they shouldn't, necessarily.  Very few man(7) documents are so
fastidious.)  Guess I'll need a separate script for this sort of
auditing.

I also set "-rCHECKSTYLE=2" to help catch man(7) usage errors.  The
only warnings I normally get from any source are for excessively wide
tables when formatting with a line length of 65n on terminals, and four
unavailable Unicode characters on PDF.  I'll get around to the former
and have no ideas for a portable solution to the latter.

> fwiw, codespell finds this one and a misspelling in curs_termcap.3x
> from last week.  (I run that occasionally, but find that it misses
> things, too).

I see that too and have the fix pending.  "delcare" is something my
fingers seem to like to type.

Here's a joke for any lurking Canadians, recalling one of the limpest
attempts at sloganeering in politics I have ever seen.

Child care, health care, pharma care--delcare.

Regards,
Branden

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