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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>,
	Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: [ITP] italic-man
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:59:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb9d816f-81eb-5e50-f1a7-fea911189ad6@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <711af07e-46e4-4d3b-b28a-a64e37284d55@towo.net>

On 21/01/2023 17:04, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> italic-man installs two scripts and hooks them into the workflow of the 
> 'man' command so that the italic attribute of manual pages is actually 
> displayed as italics in terminals that support it.
> 
> cygport file attached

Thanks very much for having another go at this.

I'm still not overly keen on postinstall/preremove scripts which modify 
a configuration file belonging to another package, so I think I'm going 
to defer to Achim on approving this.

Taking a step back, may I ask a couple of questions?

- Can this be done as a patch to man-db and/or groff?

(perhaps with a separate man-italic package which just contains a marker 
file which enables the functionality?)

- (If different) how would this be done in an upstreamable way?



  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-21 17:04 Thomas Wolff
2023-02-16 18:59 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-02-16 19:17   ` Thomas Wolff
2023-06-21 21:45     ` Thomas Wolff
2023-06-25 13:36       ` Jon Turney
2023-06-25 13:59         ` Thomas Wolff
2023-06-25 16:02           ` ASSI
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-07-28  6:01 Thomas Wolff
2019-08-09 12:59 ` Jon Turney
2019-08-09 15:07   ` Ken Brown
2019-08-09 18:56   ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-09 19:31     ` Thomas Wolff
2019-08-09 20:51       ` Brian Inglis
2019-08-10  9:07         ` Thomas Wolff
2019-08-10 21:39           ` Thomas Wolff
2019-08-10 22:29           ` Brian Inglis
2019-08-11  9:33             ` Thomas Wolff
2019-08-11 16:17               ` Achim Gratz

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