From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>, cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] man-italic
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31684ee3-b4b7-abea-4e82-8f63e4cd106a@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0bebaf3-1ab7-31ed-9f67-7a9f7ae80baa@dronecode.org.uk>
Hi Jon,
Am 19.04.2017 um 20:38 schrieb Jon Turney:
> On 28/09/2016 20:46, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> The man-italic wrapper scripts enable italic display in manual pages
>> (where italic is specified in the page) in terminals supporting
>> italic mode.
>>
>> wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/man-italic-0.9-0.tar.bz2
>> wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/man-italic-0.9-src.tar.bz2
>> wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/setup.hint
>
> This seems to have fallen through the cracks and been completely
> forgotten. Sorry about that.
Fine you noticed anyway:)
> Looking at this, I see that this is not a cygport package. While this
> is something which has been done historically, and I know it may seen
> overkill for something this small, it's something I'm very reluctant
> to see in new packages.
As you say, overkill; I've fiddled around with cygport a few times
already and I can't say I'm happy with it. While it seems to be
powerful, especially basic use isn't documented in a basic way... Would
you have a pattern for a script-only package for me, or even ready-to-use?
> The license which applies to the original work here needs to be stated.
Checking the package contributor's guide, a license does not seem to be
strictly necessary, so I thought for a simple thing it could go as
public domain implicitly. But if you prefer, I'll attach a gnu to it.
> It would be helpful if the description clarified that what this does
> is "show italic text in man pages properly as italic, rather than as
> underlined"
You mean the sdesc one-liner, not ldesc? I'd like to include the
"enabling" aspect because the package does not do the actual display
itself and does not need to be invoked as a tool, like:
sdesc: "Enabling proper italic display of italic text in man pages,
rather than underlined"
OK?
> That said, this works and is pretty cool. Nice!
Thanks. Would that be a "GTG" after sorting out the issues, or are still
3 supporters needed as there used to be?
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-21 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 19:46 Thomas Wolff
2017-04-19 18:38 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-21 7:59 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2017-04-29 12:36 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-29 15:51 ` Achim Gratz
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