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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:34:38 +0200
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=c3=ada?= <fernape@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362191 - head/sbin/md5
Message-ID:  <146239e5-081f-18f7-3a3b-54d912fb8bfd@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202006151233.05FCXN4L076562@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <202006151233.05FCXN4L076562@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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Hi,

On 6/15/20 2:33 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> Author: fernape (ports committer)
>> Date: Mon Jun 15 10:08:02 2020
>> New Revision: 362191
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362191
>>
>> Log:
>>   md5(1): fix style in man page
> 
> Mandoc is fine to ignore this, but it is wrong to call it useless.
> 
> I really wish that this stop.  .Tn might be useless to mandoc, 
> but it is a very usable thing if your formatting to something
> other than txt, as in a ps or pdf.

In that case I would consider patching our in-tree mandoc to not warn
about Tn. Or request support for Tn or a well-defined replacement upstream.

I can see the benefit of keeping Tn around, as it /might/ potentially
create nice formatting for HTML. On the other hand, I don't like the
idea of not following the linter.

Cheers,
Mateusz



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