Re: Help with citations in groff

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-12-04T17:50:46-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 12/1/23, Darris Hawks <darris@hawkslegal.com> wrote:
> > There are a couple of things that are unclear to me after reading
> > the manual for GNU refer.
[...]
> Can you clarify what documentation you were reading--and, if it was
> the refer(1) man page, which version of groff you have installed?
> 
> I ask because this man page was heavily revised between the prior
> groff release (1.22.4) and the current one (1.23), much of it in
> response to user feedback about its usability (for example,
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57667).  But it'd be good to know if
> there are still unclear parts in the 1.23 version of the man page.

I would say there are.  I've whacked on it quite a bit more since 1.23,
and I don't regard the work as done yet.

$ COLUMNS=72 git diff --stat 1.23.0 master ./src/preproc/refer/refer.1.man
 src/preproc/refer/refer.1.man | 654 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 363 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)

Regards,
Branden

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