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bug #54884: doc/groff.texi: clarification of .H and .V registers

Submitter:  Dave <barx>
Submitted:  Tue 23 Oct 2018 08:07:52 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Sun 04 Nov 2018 12:22:50 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in f79425056fafcf9db06bc4db6d6278dff315c4fd.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 23 Oct 2018 08:07:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

This bug report is the culmination of a mailing-list discussion whose three most relevant posts are archived at

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-06/msg00014.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-06/msg00015.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-06/msg00024.html

The conclusion was to add the following text to doc/groff.texi to clarify how the .H and .V registers specify the difference between device basic units and groff basic units.  Werner approved of this wording, and no other opinions were offered on it.  (The text below reproduces the text proposed on the mailing list, with the addition of @code{} markup around the register names.)

"Although groff's basic unit is device dependent, it may still be smaller than the smallest unit the device is capable of producing.  The register @code{.H} specifies how many groff basic units constitute the current device's basic unit horizontally, and the register @code{.V} specifies this value vertically."

This addition could go in "@section Measurements", which defines basic units, or in "@subsection Built-in Registers", which defines the .H and .V registers.  It's not clear to me which is the better location, hence I haven't provided a patch, just the text to be inserted.

Dave <barx>
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        Assigned toNone gbranden
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4

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