Re: CVS commit: src/share/tmac

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20191224113037.GL24362%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>,
Valery Ushakov  <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 08:46:49 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>
>>     Date:        Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:45:34 +0100
>>     From:        Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>
>>     Message-ID:  <20191223224534.8UFgy%steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>
>> 
>> 
>>   |  |Troff reads .ie and checks the condition.  The condition is true and
>>   |  |so the rest of the line is executed.  Then troff reads .el that
>>   |  |matches successful .ie, so the .el is discarded.
>>   |  |
>>   |  |Then it reads .el which is not matched with any .ie that troff has
>>   |  |seen.  It's usually silently discarded,
>> 
>> That is what is (always was) intended to happen.
>
>Sure.
>
>
>>   |  |but since we run with -ww we
>>   |  |get the warning about an unbalanced .el
>> 
>> That's a broken warning.
>
>Amen.  But let's be honest, in this day and age *very* few people can
>can read troff, never mind write it (and I don't count myself as one),
>so a warning from groff, however broken, will just confuse and upset
>the users.  Since silencing this warning doesn't require that much of
>an effort and doesn't mutilate the code that much, it's easier to just
>shut it up.

We should file a bug report with groff though (and optionally supply a fix).

christos