[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#1037353: lynx.1: a few formatting fixes for the manual

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 05:49:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 01:56:56AM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > Package: lynx
> > Version: 2.9.0dev.12-1
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > here are some fixes.
> > 
> > Input file is lynx.1
> > 
> > Output from "mandoc -T lint lynx.1"
> > mandoc: lynx.1:27:2: WARNING: missing date, using "": TH
> > mandoc: lynx.1:109:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> > mandoc: lynx.1:317:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> > mandoc: lynx.1:366:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> > mandoc: lynx.1:831:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> > mandoc: lynx.1:838:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> > mandoc: lynx.1:1131:2: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: ft C			
> 
> That seems to be harmless for nroff, but mainly is for troff (and groff)
> to select a fixed-pitch font for PDFs and PostScript.  I'll see if this
> is at least no worse than the plain "C".
> 
> Solaris 10 appears to have "CO" for "Courier" (troff), while
> an AIX that I can access uses "CR".  But on those systems,
> I'm not actually using troff :-)
> 
> I've been using "C" quite a while, and hadn't noticed a problem with
> the indicated usage (i.e., generating PDFs, etc).
> 
  The C font is aliased with the CR font in some tmac files in "groff", 
so it actually does not need a change.
  Also, in the "man.local" file, it can be changed for nroff to "R"
avoiding a warning.

> > #######
> > 
> > Increase size of ~ (tilde) to make it more visible
> > with "troff" by using character \(ti.
> 
> That appears to be groff-specific.
>  
  Possible, so a better transformation is a size change, "\s+3~\s-3".

> > 264:If none is specified, the default value is ~/.lynx_cookies
> > 265:for most systems, but ~/cookies for MS-DOS.
> > 
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