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mandoc: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: наб <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 13:11:35 +0200

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Package: mandoc
Version: 1.14.51
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Given the following document:
-- >8 --
.Dd
.Dt T 1
.Os
.
\fBtext\fItext\f(BItext\fR
.Pp
.TS
lfB lfI lfBI lb li lbi .
text	text	text	text	text	text
.TE
-- >8 --
mandoc -Thtml -Ofragment outputs the following:
-- >8 --
<table class="head">
  <tr>
    <td class="head-ltitle">T(1)</td>
    <td class="head-vol">General Commands Manual</td>
    <td class="head-rtitle">T(1)</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<div class="manual-text"><b>text</b><i>text</i><b><i>text</i></b>
<p class="Pp"></p>
<table class="tbl">
  <tr>
    <td>text</td>
    <td>text</td>
    <td>text</td>
    <td>text</td>
    <td>text</td>
    <td>text</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>
<table class="foot">
  <tr>
    <td class="foot-date">August 8, 2021</td>
    <td class="foot-os">Debian</td>
  </tr>
</table>
-- >8 --

When run as mandoc | less, all \f requests are properly formatted,
as are single-letter f tbl requests (I take this to be a limitation
of the tbl parser/unsupported groff extension, considering -Tlint
also dislikes it).
"bi" is formatted as bold, groff formats it as italic. This is fine,
I think? but worth noting.

However, as you can see, with -Thtml, the \f requests are correct,
but all tbl font requests are ignored entirely.
(Plus, if you remove the final \fR, they're all bold+italic.
 This is to be vaguely expected, had no other fonts been specified.)

Best,
наб

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: наб <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#992002: mandoc: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 14:49:19 +0200

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Control: retitle -1 mandoc: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored
Control: tags -1 + patch

Easy enough, oddly. Patch attached, applies cleanly on top of 1.22.4-6.
Please consider it.

Given the following document:
-- >8 --
.Dd
.Dt V 1
.Os
.
\fBtext\fItext\f(BItext\f(CRtext\f(CBtext\f(CItext\fR
.Pp
.TS
lfB lfI lfBI lb li lbi lfCR lfCB lfCI .
text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text
.TE
-- >8 --

When rendering to a teletype, the fonts are
  b, ul, bul;  b, ul, bul;  normal, b, ul
this is as expected!

-Thtml -Ofragment yields
-- >8 --
<table class="head">
  <tr>
    <td class="head-ltitle">V(1)</td>
    <td class="head-vol">General Commands Manual</td>
    <td class="head-rtitle">V(1)</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<div class="manual-text"><b>text</b><i>text</i><b><i>text</i></b><span class="Li">text</span><b>text</b><i>text</i>
<p class="Pp"></p>
<table class="tbl">
  <tr>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
    <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
    <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
    <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>
<table class="foot">
  <tr>
    <td class="foot-date">August 8, 2021</td>
    <td class="foot-os">Debian</td>
  </tr>
</table>
-- >8 --

This is, also, as expected, if suboptimal because of the general
HTML \fC[BI] handling.

Best,
наб

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--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.7
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.7
@@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ of any other column also having the
 .Cm e
 modifier.
 .It Cm f
-The next character selects the font to use for this cell.
+The next two characters select the font to use for this cell.
+One-character font names must be followed by a blank or period.
 See the
 .Xr roff 7
-manual for supported one-character font names.
+manual for supported font names.
 .It Cm i
 Use an italic font for the contents of this cell.
 .It Cm m
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.h
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.h
@@ -59,12 +59,13 @@ struct	tbl_cell {
 	int		  flags;
 #define	TBL_CELL_BOLD	 (1 << 0)   /* b, B, fB */
 #define	TBL_CELL_ITALIC	 (1 << 1)   /* i, I, fI */
-#define	TBL_CELL_TALIGN	 (1 << 2)   /* t, T */
-#define	TBL_CELL_UP	 (1 << 3)   /* u, U */
-#define	TBL_CELL_BALIGN	 (1 << 4)   /* d, D */
-#define	TBL_CELL_WIGN	 (1 << 5)   /* z, Z */
-#define	TBL_CELL_EQUAL	 (1 << 6)   /* e, E */
-#define	TBL_CELL_WMAX	 (1 << 7)   /* x, X */
+#define	TBL_CELL_FONTCW	 (1 << 2)   /* fC[RBI] */
+#define	TBL_CELL_TALIGN	 (1 << 3)   /* t, T */
+#define	TBL_CELL_UP	 (1 << 4)   /* u, U */
+#define	TBL_CELL_BALIGN	 (1 << 5)   /* d, D */
+#define	TBL_CELL_WIGN	 (1 << 6)   /* z, Z */
+#define	TBL_CELL_EQUAL	 (1 << 7)   /* e, E */
+#define	TBL_CELL_WMAX	 (1 << 8)   /* x, X */
 	enum tbl_cellt	  pos;
 };
 
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_html.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_html.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include "mandoc.h"
+#include "mandoc_aux.h"
 #include "tbl.h"
 #include "out.h"
 #include "html.h"
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
 		else
 			valign = NULL;
 
+		int flags = cp->flags;
 		for (i = dp->hspans; i > 0; i--)
 			cp = cp->next;
 		switch (cp->vert) {
@@ -239,8 +241,36 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
 		    "vertical-align", valign,
 		    "text-align", halign,
 		    "border-right-style", rborder);
-		if (dp->string != NULL)
-			print_text(h, dp->string);
+		if (dp->string != NULL) {
+			const char *font = NULL;
+			switch (flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC | TBL_CELL_FONTCW)) {
+				case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+					font = "\\fB";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\fI";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\f(BI";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW:
+					font = "\\f(CR";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+					font = "\\f(CB";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\f(CI";
+					break;
+			}
+			if (font) {
+				char *str;
+				mandoc_asprintf(&str, "%s%s\\fP", font, dp->string);
+				print_text(h, str);
+				free(str);
+			} else
+				print_text(h, dp->string);
+		}
 	}
 
 	print_tagq(h, tt);
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_layout.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_layout.c
@@ -170,9 +170,7 @@ mod:
 	if (p[*pos] == '(')
 		goto mod;
 
-	/* Support only one-character font-names for now. */
-
-	if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
+	if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (!isalnum(p[*pos + 1]) && p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
 		    ln, *pos, "TS %s", p + *pos - 1);
 		if (p[*pos] != '\0')
@@ -182,23 +180,27 @@ mod:
 		goto mod;
 	}
 
-	switch (p[(*pos)++]) {
-	case '3':
-	case 'B':
+	char fn[3] = {'\0'}, *fp = fn;
+	fn[0] = p[(*pos)++];
+	fn[1] = p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '.' ? '\0' : p[(*pos)++];
+
+refont:
+	if (!strcmp(fp, "3") || !strcmp(fp, "B"))
 		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD;
-		goto mod;
-	case '2':
-	case 'I':
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "2") || !strcmp(fp, "I"))
 		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
-		goto mod;
-	case '1':
-	case 'R':
-		goto mod;
-	default:
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "1") || !strcmp(fp, "R"))
+		;
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "BI"))
+		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
+	else if (fp[0] == 'C' && fp[1]) {
+		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_FONTCW;
+		++fp;
+		goto refont;
+	} else
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
-		    ln, *pos - 1, "TS f%c", p[*pos - 1]);
-		goto mod;
-	}
+		    ln, *pos - strlen(fn), "TS f%s", fn);
+	goto mod;
 }
 
 static void
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_term.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_term.c
@@ -922,10 +922,17 @@ tbl_word(struct termp *tp, const struct
 	int		 prev_font;
 
 	prev_font = tp->fonti;
-	if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
-	else if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+	switch (dp->layout->flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC)) {
+		case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BI);
+			break;
+		case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
+			break;
+		case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+			break;
+	}
 
 	term_word(tp, dp->string);
 

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Message #19 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]>

To: наб <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#992002: mandoc: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 15:08:46 +0200

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Can you send your patches to upstream directly please?
See https://mandoc.bsd.lv/contact.html

It’s awkward for Debian maintainers to sit in the middle.
Thanks!

On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 at 14:51, наб <[email protected]> wrote:

> Control: retitle -1 mandoc: -Thtml: tbl font requests ignored
> Control: tags -1 + patch
>
> Easy enough, oddly. Patch attached, applies cleanly on top of 1.22.4-6.
> Please consider it.
>
> Given the following document:
> -- >8 --
> .Dd
> .Dt V 1
> .Os
> .
> \fBtext\fItext\f(BItext\f(CRtext\f(CBtext\f(CItext\fR
> .Pp
> .TS
> lfB lfI lfBI lb li lbi lfCR lfCB lfCI .
> text    text    text    text    text    text    text    text    text
> .TE
> -- >8 --
>
> When rendering to a teletype, the fonts are
>   b, ul, bul;  b, ul, bul;  normal, b, ul
> this is as expected!
>
> -Thtml -Ofragment yields
> -- >8 --
> <table class="head">
>   <tr>
>     <td class="head-ltitle">V(1)</td>
>     <td class="head-vol">General Commands Manual</td>
>     <td class="head-rtitle">V(1)</td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
> <div class="manual-text"><b>text</b><i>text</i><b><i>text</i></b><span
> class="Li">text</span><b>text</b><i>text</i>
> <p class="Pp"></p>
> <table class="tbl">
>   <tr>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>
>     <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>
>     <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
>     <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
> </div>
> <table class="foot">
>   <tr>
>     <td class="foot-date">August 8, 2021</td>
>     <td class="foot-os">Debian</td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
> -- >8 --
>
> This is, also, as expected, if suboptimal because of the general
> HTML \fC[BI] handling.
>
> Best,
> наб
> --- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.7
> +++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.7
> @@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ of any other column also having the
>  .Cm e
>  modifier.
>  .It Cm f
> -The next character selects the font to use for this cell.
> +The next two characters select the font to use for this cell.
> +One-character font names must be followed by a blank or period.
>  See the
>  .Xr roff 7
> -manual for supported one-character font names.
> +manual for supported font names.
>  .It Cm i
>  Use an italic font for the contents of this cell.
>  .It Cm m
> --- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.h
> +++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.h
> @@ -59,12 +59,13 @@ struct      tbl_cell {
>         int               flags;
>  #define        TBL_CELL_BOLD    (1 << 0)   /* b, B, fB */
>  #define        TBL_CELL_ITALIC  (1 << 1)   /* i, I, fI */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_TALIGN  (1 << 2)   /* t, T */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_UP      (1 << 3)   /* u, U */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_BALIGN  (1 << 4)   /* d, D */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_WIGN    (1 << 5)   /* z, Z */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_EQUAL   (1 << 6)   /* e, E */
> -#define        TBL_CELL_WMAX    (1 << 7)   /* x, X */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_FONTCW  (1 << 2)   /* fC[RBI] */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_TALIGN  (1 << 3)   /* t, T */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_UP      (1 << 4)   /* u, U */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_BALIGN  (1 << 5)   /* d, D */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_WIGN    (1 << 6)   /* z, Z */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_EQUAL   (1 << 7)   /* e, E */
> +#define        TBL_CELL_WMAX    (1 << 8)   /* x, X */
>         enum tbl_cellt    pos;
>  };
>
> --- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_html.c
> +++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_html.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>  #include <string.h>
>
>  #include "mandoc.h"
> +#include "mandoc_aux.h"
>  #include "tbl.h"
>  #include "out.h"
>  #include "html.h"
> @@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
>                 else
>                         valign = NULL;
>
> +               int flags = cp->flags;
>                 for (i = dp->hspans; i > 0; i--)
>                         cp = cp->next;
>                 switch (cp->vert) {
> @@ -239,8 +241,36 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
>                     "vertical-align", valign,
>                     "text-align", halign,
>                     "border-right-style", rborder);
> -               if (dp->string != NULL)
> -                       print_text(h, dp->string);
> +               if (dp->string != NULL) {
> +                       const char *font = NULL;
> +                       switch (flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC |
> TBL_CELL_FONTCW)) {
> +                               case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
> +                                       font = "\\fB";
> +                                       break;
> +                               case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
> +                                       font = "\\fI";
> +                                       break;
> +                               case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
> +                                       font = "\\f(BI";
> +                                       break;
> +                               case TBL_CELL_FONTCW:
> +                                       font = "\\f(CR";
> +                                       break;
> +                               case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_BOLD:
> +                                       font = "\\f(CB";
> +                                       break;
> +                               case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
> +                                       font = "\\f(CI";
> +                                       break;
> +                       }
> +                       if (font) {
> +                               char *str;
> +                               mandoc_asprintf(&str, "%s%s\\fP", font,
> dp->string);
> +                               print_text(h, str);
> +                               free(str);
> +                       } else
> +                               print_text(h, dp->string);
> +               }
>         }
>
>         print_tagq(h, tt);
> --- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_layout.c
> +++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_layout.c
> @@ -170,9 +170,7 @@ mod:
>         if (p[*pos] == '(')
>                 goto mod;
>
> -       /* Support only one-character font-names for now. */
> -
> -       if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.'))
> {
> +       if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (!isalnum(p[*pos + 1]) && p[*pos + 1] != '
> ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
>                 mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
>                     ln, *pos, "TS %s", p + *pos - 1);
>                 if (p[*pos] != '\0')
> @@ -182,23 +180,27 @@ mod:
>                 goto mod;
>         }
>
> -       switch (p[(*pos)++]) {
> -       case '3':
> -       case 'B':
> +       char fn[3] = {'\0'}, *fp = fn;
> +       fn[0] = p[(*pos)++];
> +       fn[1] = p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '.' ? '\0' : p[(*pos)++];
> +
> +refont:
> +       if (!strcmp(fp, "3") || !strcmp(fp, "B"))
>                 cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD;
> -               goto mod;
> -       case '2':
> -       case 'I':
> +       else if (!strcmp(fp, "2") || !strcmp(fp, "I"))
>                 cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
> -               goto mod;
> -       case '1':
> -       case 'R':
> -               goto mod;
> -       default:
> +       else if (!strcmp(fp, "1") || !strcmp(fp, "R"))
> +               ;
> +       else if (!strcmp(fp, "BI"))
> +               cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
> +       else if (fp[0] == 'C' && fp[1]) {
> +               cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_FONTCW;
> +               ++fp;
> +               goto refont;
> +       } else
>                 mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
> -                   ln, *pos - 1, "TS f%c", p[*pos - 1]);
> -               goto mod;
> -       }
> +                   ln, *pos - strlen(fn), "TS f%s", fn);
> +       goto mod;
>  }
>
>  static void
> --- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_term.c
> +++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_term.c
> @@ -922,10 +922,17 @@ tbl_word(struct termp *tp, const struct
>         int              prev_font;
>
>         prev_font = tp->fonti;
> -       if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
> -               term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
> -       else if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
> -               term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
> +       switch (dp->layout->flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC)) {
> +               case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
> +                       term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BI);
> +                       break;
> +               case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
> +                       term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
> +                       break;
> +               case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
> +                       term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
> +                       break;
> +       }
>
>         term_word(tp, dp->string);
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Michael

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Message #24 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: наб <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: [PATCH][Debian#992002] tbl: allow two-character fonts and format fonts in -Thtml

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 15:24:52 +0200

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Hi!

tbl's -Thtml ignores font requests; additionally, the tbl f-request
parser only allows single-character fonts. Cf. the Debian bug
(http://bugs.debian.org/992002) for additional context.

Please consider the following patch.
наб

---
With this patch, the following document:
-- >8 --
.Dd
.Dt V 1
.Os
.
\fBtext\fItext\f(BItext\f(CRtext\f(CBtext\f(CItext\fR
.Pp
.TS
lfB lfI lfBI lb li lbi lfCR lfCB lfCI .
text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text
.TE
-- >8 --

Renders to a teletype with the expected fonts:
  b, ul, bul;  b, ul, bul;  normal, b, ul

-Thtml -Ofragment yields, as expected:
-- >8 --
<table class="head">
  <tr>
    <td class="head-ltitle">V(1)</td>
    <td class="head-vol">General Commands Manual</td>
    <td class="head-rtitle">V(1)</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<div class="manual-text"><b>text</b><i>text</i><b><i>text</i></b><span class="Li">text</span><b>text</b><i>text</i>
<p class="Pp"></p>
<table class="tbl">
  <tr>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
    <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
    <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
    <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
    <td><b>text</b></td>
    <td><i>text</i></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>
<table class="foot">
  <tr>
    <td class="foot-date">August 8, 2021</td>
    <td class="foot-os">Debian</td>
  </tr>
</table>
-- >8 --

--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.7
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.7
@@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ of any other column also having the
 .Cm e
 modifier.
 .It Cm f
-The next character selects the font to use for this cell.
+The next two characters select the font to use for this cell.
+One-character font names must be followed by a blank or period.
 See the
 .Xr roff 7
-manual for supported one-character font names.
+manual for supported font names.
 .It Cm i
 Use an italic font for the contents of this cell.
 .It Cm m
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl.h
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl.h
@@ -59,12 +59,13 @@ struct	tbl_cell {
 	int		  flags;
 #define	TBL_CELL_BOLD	 (1 << 0)   /* b, B, fB */
 #define	TBL_CELL_ITALIC	 (1 << 1)   /* i, I, fI */
-#define	TBL_CELL_TALIGN	 (1 << 2)   /* t, T */
-#define	TBL_CELL_UP	 (1 << 3)   /* u, U */
-#define	TBL_CELL_BALIGN	 (1 << 4)   /* d, D */
-#define	TBL_CELL_WIGN	 (1 << 5)   /* z, Z */
-#define	TBL_CELL_EQUAL	 (1 << 6)   /* e, E */
-#define	TBL_CELL_WMAX	 (1 << 7)   /* x, X */
+#define	TBL_CELL_FONTCW	 (1 << 2)   /* fC[RBI] */
+#define	TBL_CELL_TALIGN	 (1 << 3)   /* t, T */
+#define	TBL_CELL_UP	 (1 << 4)   /* u, U */
+#define	TBL_CELL_BALIGN	 (1 << 5)   /* d, D */
+#define	TBL_CELL_WIGN	 (1 << 6)   /* z, Z */
+#define	TBL_CELL_EQUAL	 (1 << 7)   /* e, E */
+#define	TBL_CELL_WMAX	 (1 << 8)   /* x, X */
 	enum tbl_cellt	  pos;
 };
 
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_html.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_html.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include "mandoc.h"
+#include "mandoc_aux.h"
 #include "tbl.h"
 #include "out.h"
 #include "html.h"
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
 		else
 			valign = NULL;
 
+		int flags = cp->flags;
 		for (i = dp->hspans; i > 0; i--)
 			cp = cp->next;
 		switch (cp->vert) {
@@ -239,8 +241,36 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
 		    "vertical-align", valign,
 		    "text-align", halign,
 		    "border-right-style", rborder);
-		if (dp->string != NULL)
-			print_text(h, dp->string);
+		if (dp->string != NULL) {
+			const char *font = NULL;
+			switch (flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC | TBL_CELL_FONTCW)) {
+				case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+					font = "\\fB";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\fI";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\f(BI";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW:
+					font = "\\f(CR";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+					font = "\\f(CB";
+					break;
+				case TBL_CELL_FONTCW | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+					font = "\\f(CI";
+					break;
+			}
+			if (font) {
+				char *str;
+				mandoc_asprintf(&str, "%s%s\\fP", font, dp->string);
+				print_text(h, str);
+				free(str);
+			} else
+				print_text(h, dp->string);
+		}
 	}
 
 	print_tagq(h, tt);
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_layout.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_layout.c
@@ -170,9 +170,7 @@ mod:
 	if (p[*pos] == '(')
 		goto mod;
 
-	/* Support only one-character font-names for now. */
-
-	if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
+	if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (!isalnum(p[*pos + 1]) && p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
 		    ln, *pos, "TS %s", p + *pos - 1);
 		if (p[*pos] != '\0')
@@ -182,23 +180,27 @@ mod:
 		goto mod;
 	}
 
-	switch (p[(*pos)++]) {
-	case '3':
-	case 'B':
+	char fn[3] = {'\0'}, *fp = fn;
+	fn[0] = p[(*pos)++];
+	fn[1] = p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '.' ? '\0' : p[(*pos)++];
+
+refont:
+	if (!strcmp(fp, "3") || !strcmp(fp, "B"))
 		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD;
-		goto mod;
-	case '2':
-	case 'I':
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "2") || !strcmp(fp, "I"))
 		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
-		goto mod;
-	case '1':
-	case 'R':
-		goto mod;
-	default:
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "1") || !strcmp(fp, "R"))
+		;
+	else if (!strcmp(fp, "BI"))
+		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
+	else if (fp[0] == 'C' && fp[1]) {
+		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_FONTCW;
+		++fp;
+		goto refont;
+	} else
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
-		    ln, *pos - 1, "TS f%c", p[*pos - 1]);
-		goto mod;
-	}
+		    ln, *pos - strlen(fn), "TS f%s", fn);
+	goto mod;
 }
 
 static void
--- mdocml-1.14.5.orig/tbl_term.c
+++ mdocml-1.14.5/tbl_term.c
@@ -922,10 +922,17 @@ tbl_word(struct termp *tp, const struct
 	int		 prev_font;
 
 	prev_font = tp->fonti;
-	if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
-	else if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+	switch (dp->layout->flags & (TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC)) {
+		case TBL_CELL_BOLD | TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BI);
+			break;
+		case TBL_CELL_BOLD:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
+			break;
+		case TBL_CELL_ITALIC:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+			break;
+	}
 
 	term_word(tp, dp->string);
 

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Message #29 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: [PATCH][Debian#992002] tbl: allow two-character fonts and format fonts in -Thtml

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 10:58:19 +0200

Hello Nab,

Nab wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:24:53PM +0200:

> tbl's -Thtml ignores font requests;

Not in CVS HEAD; see https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/mandoc/tbl_html.c revision 1.34,
committed on May 16 earlier this year.

> additionally, the tbl f-request
> parser only allows single-character fonts.

Yes, that is still a missing feature.

> Cf. the Debian bug
> (http://bugs.debian.org/992002) for additional context.
> 
> Please consider the following patch.

Thank you very much for sending quite a non-trivial patch.
That was very helpful in understanding what exactly is needed.

I started from your patch and changed a few aspects:

 * You couldn't possibly know that i'm trying to work towards a
   unified system for identifying fonts using the mandoc.h
   enum mandoc_esc ESCAPE_FONT* identifiers.  Having different
   font identifiers for each output module is not good.
   So i added ESCAPE_FONTCB and ESCAPE_FONTCI and used those.
   A nice side effect is that CB and CI now work in HTML
   for all of \f, .ft, and tbl(7) f and that tbl(7) fBI
   now also works for terminal output.
 * GNU tbl(1) appears to ignore space characters between the f
   modifier and the font name, so "lf   B" is the same as "lfB".

> With this patch, the following document:
> -- >8 --
> .Dd
> .Dt V 1
> .Os
> .
> \fBtext\fItext\f(BItext\f(CRtext\f(CBtext\f(CItext\fR
> .Pp
> .TS
> lfB lfI lfBI lb li lbi lfCR lfCB lfCI .
> text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text	text
> .TE
> -- >8 --
> 
> Renders to a teletype with the expected fonts:
>   b, ul, bul;  b, ul, bul;  normal, b, ul

Not quite.  The expected output for lbi is ul, not bul.
The i overrides the b rather than add to it.
So lbi is the same as lfI, not as lfBI.

> -Thtml -Ofragment yields, as expected:
> -- >8 --
[...]
> <table class="tbl">
>   <tr>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>
>     <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>
>     <td><b><i>text</i></b></td>

Again, <td><i>text</i></td> with my version of the patch.

>     <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>     <td><i>text</i></td>

These become:

      <td><span class="Li"><b>text</b></span></td>
      <td><span class="Li"><i>text</i></span></td>

Could you please check out from CVS (instead of the last release),
apply the following patch, and tell me whether it looks reasonable
and works for you?

When this gets committed, i will credit you for reporting the
missing feature.  Do i understand correctly that "Nabija" is your
first name and "Czleweli" your last name?

Thanks again,
  Ingo

-- 
Ingo Schwarze             <[email protected]>
http://www.openbsd.org/   <[email protected]>
http://mandoc.bsd.lv/     <[email protected]>


Index: html.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/html.c,v
retrieving revision 1.273
diff -u -p -r1.273 html.c
--- html.c	2 Jun 2021 17:51:38 -0000	1.273
+++ html.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* $Id: html.c,v 1.273 2021/06/02 17:51:38 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  * Copyright (c) 2008-2011, 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -240,8 +240,10 @@ html_setfont(struct html *h, enum mandoc
 	case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
 	case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
 	case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
-	case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
 	case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 		break;
 	case ESCAPE_FONT:
 		font = ESCAPE_FONTROMAN;
@@ -272,9 +274,17 @@ print_metaf(struct html *h)
 		h->metaf = print_otag(h, TAG_B, "");
 		print_otag(h, TAG_I, "");
 		break;
-	case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
 		h->metaf = print_otag(h, TAG_SPAN, "c", "Li");
 		break;
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+		h->metaf = print_otag(h, TAG_SPAN, "c", "Li");
+		print_otag(h, TAG_B, "");
+		break;
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
+		h->metaf = print_otag(h, TAG_SPAN, "c", "Li");
+		print_otag(h, TAG_I, "");
+		break;
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
@@ -503,8 +513,10 @@ print_encode(struct html *h, const char 
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
-		case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 			if (0 == norecurse) {
 				h->flags |= HTML_NOSPACE;
 				if (html_setfont(h, esc))
Index: man_validate.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/man_validate.c,v
retrieving revision 1.155
diff -u -p -r1.155 man_validate.c
--- man_validate.c	30 Oct 2020 13:24:33 -0000	1.155
+++ man_validate.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ check_tag(struct roff_node *n, struct ro
 			case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
 			case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
 			case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
-			case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 			case ESCAPE_FONTPREV:
 			case ESCAPE_IGNORE:
 				break;
Index: mandoc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandoc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.118
diff -u -p -r1.118 mandoc.c
--- mandoc.c	24 Oct 2020 22:57:39 -0000	1.118
+++ mandoc.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*	$Id: mandoc.c,v 1.118 2020/10/24 22:57:39 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2008-2011, 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
- * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ mandoc_font(const char *cp, int sz)
 		case 'C':
 			switch (cp[1]) {
 			case 'B':
-				return ESCAPE_FONTBOLD;
+				return ESCAPE_FONTCB;
 			case 'I':
-				return ESCAPE_FONTITALIC;
+				return ESCAPE_FONTCI;
 			case 'R':
 			case 'W':
-				return ESCAPE_FONTCW;
+				return ESCAPE_FONTCR;
 			default:
 				return ESCAPE_ERROR;
 			}
Index: mandoc.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandoc.h,v
retrieving revision 1.272
diff -u -p -r1.272 mandoc.h
--- mandoc.h	4 Jul 2021 15:38:26 -0000	1.272
+++ mandoc.h	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -291,7 +291,9 @@ enum	mandoc_esc {
 	ESCAPE_FONTITALIC, /* italic font mode */
 	ESCAPE_FONTBI, /* bold italic font mode */
 	ESCAPE_FONTROMAN, /* roman font mode */
-	ESCAPE_FONTCW, /* constant width font mode */
+	ESCAPE_FONTCR, /* constant width font mode */
+	ESCAPE_FONTCB, /* constant width bold font mode */
+	ESCAPE_FONTCI, /* constant width italic font mode */
 	ESCAPE_FONTPREV, /* previous font mode */
 	ESCAPE_NUMBERED, /* a numbered glyph */
 	ESCAPE_UNICODE, /* a unicode codepoint */
Index: mandoc_headers.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandoc_headers.3,v
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -p -r1.33 mandoc_headers.3
--- mandoc_headers.3	13 Mar 2020 15:32:28 -0000	1.33
+++ mandoc_headers.3	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"	$Id: mandoc_headers.3,v 1.33 2020/03/13 15:32:28 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -167,7 +167,11 @@ parse tree; can be used everywhere.
 Requires
 .In sys/types.h
 for
-.Vt size_t .
+.Vt size_t
+and
+.Qq Pa mandoc.h
+for
+.Vt enum mandoc_esc .
 .Pp
 Provides
 .Vt enum tbl_cellt ,
Index: mdoc_markdown.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mdoc_markdown.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -p -r1.36 mdoc_markdown.c
--- mdoc_markdown.c	22 Jun 2020 19:20:40 -0000	1.36
+++ mdoc_markdown.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -603,16 +603,18 @@ md_word(const char *s)
 				md_rawword("markdown");
 				continue;
 			case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
 				nextfont = "**";
 				break;
 			case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 				nextfont = "*";
 				break;
 			case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
 				nextfont = "***";
 				break;
 			case ESCAPE_FONT:
-			case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+			case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
 			case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
 				nextfont = "";
 				break;
Index: out.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/out.c,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -u -p -r1.79 out.c
--- out.c	31 Dec 2019 22:58:41 -0000	1.79
+++ out.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:02 -0000
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <time.h>
 
 #include "mandoc_aux.h"
+#include "mandoc.h"
 #include "tbl.h"
 #include "out.h"
 
Index: roff.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/roff.c,v
retrieving revision 1.377
diff -u -p -r1.377 roff.c
--- roff.c	27 Jun 2021 17:57:55 -0000	1.377
+++ roff.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -3667,7 +3667,9 @@ roff_char(ROFF_ARGS)
 		case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
-		case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTPREV:
 			font++;
 			break;
Index: roff_term.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/roff_term.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -p -r1.22 roff_term.c
--- roff_term.c	3 Sep 2020 20:43:15 -0000	1.22
+++ roff_term.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -112,9 +112,11 @@ roff_term_pre_ft(ROFF_TERM_ARGS)
 	cp = n->child->string;
 	switch (mandoc_font(cp, (int)strlen(cp))) {
 	case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
 		term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_BOLD);
 		break;
 	case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 		term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_UNDER);
 		break;
 	case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
@@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ roff_term_pre_ft(ROFF_TERM_ARGS)
 		term_fontlast(p);
 		break;
 	case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
-	case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+	case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
 		term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_NONE);
 		break;
 	default:
Index: tbl.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl.7,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -p -r1.34 tbl.7
--- tbl.7	2 Mar 2019 21:03:02 -0000	1.34
+++ tbl.7	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ of any other column also having the
 .Cm e
 modifier.
 .It Cm f
-The next character selects the font to use for this cell.
+The next one or two characters select the font to use for this cell.
+One-character font names must be followed by a blank or period.
 See the
 .Xr roff 7
-manual for supported one-character font names.
+manual for supported font names.
 .It Cm i
 Use an italic font for the contents of this cell.
 .It Cm m
Index: tbl.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 tbl.h
--- tbl.h	12 Dec 2018 21:54:35 -0000	1.1
+++ tbl.h	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*	$Id: tbl.h,v 1.1 2018/12/12 21:54:35 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
- * Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -57,14 +57,13 @@ struct	tbl_cell {
 	int		  vert;     /* Width of subsequent vertical line. */
 	int		  col;      /* Column number, starting from 0. */
 	int		  flags;
-#define	TBL_CELL_BOLD	 (1 << 0)   /* b, B, fB */
-#define	TBL_CELL_ITALIC	 (1 << 1)   /* i, I, fI */
 #define	TBL_CELL_TALIGN	 (1 << 2)   /* t, T */
 #define	TBL_CELL_UP	 (1 << 3)   /* u, U */
 #define	TBL_CELL_BALIGN	 (1 << 4)   /* d, D */
 #define	TBL_CELL_WIGN	 (1 << 5)   /* z, Z */
 #define	TBL_CELL_EQUAL	 (1 << 6)   /* e, E */
 #define	TBL_CELL_WMAX	 (1 << 7)   /* x, X */
+	enum mandoc_esc	  font;
 	enum tbl_cellt	  pos;
 };
 
Index: tbl_data.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl_data.c,v
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -p -r1.55 tbl_data.c
--- tbl_data.c	18 May 2021 13:22:43 -0000	1.55
+++ tbl_data.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ getdata(struct tbl_node *tbl, struct tbl
 		if (dp->layout->last->col + 1 < dp->opts->cols) {
 			cp = mandoc_calloc(1, sizeof(*cp));
 			cp->pos = TBL_CELL_LEFT;
+			cp->font = ESCAPE_FONTROMAN;
 			cp->spacing = SIZE_MAX;
 			dp->layout->last->next = cp;
 			cp->col = dp->layout->last->col + 1;
Index: tbl_html.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl_html.c,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -p -r1.35 tbl_html.c
--- tbl_html.c	16 May 2021 23:18:35 -0000	1.35
+++ tbl_html.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -243,10 +243,7 @@ print_tbl(struct html *h, const struct t
 		    "border-right-style", rborder);
 		if (dp->string != NULL) {
 			save_font = h->metac;
-			if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
-				html_setfont(h, ESCAPE_FONTBOLD);
-			else if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
-				html_setfont(h, ESCAPE_FONTITALIC);
+			html_setfont(h, dp->layout->font);
 			if (dp->layout->pos == TBL_CELL_LONG)
 				print_text(h, "\\[u2003]");  /* em space */
 			print_text(h, dp->string);
Index: tbl_layout.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl_layout.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -p -r1.49 tbl_layout.c
--- tbl_layout.c	1 Sep 2020 18:25:28 -0000	1.49
+++ tbl_layout.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /*	$Id: tbl_layout.c,v 1.49 2020/09/01 18:25:28 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
- * Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021
+ *               Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -67,6 +68,8 @@ mods(struct tbl_node *tbl, struct tbl_ce
 	char		*endptr;
 	unsigned long	 spacing;
 	size_t		 sz;
+	int		 isz;
+	enum mandoc_esc	 fontesc;
 
 mod:
 	while (p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '\t')
@@ -105,7 +108,7 @@ mod:
 
 	switch (tolower((unsigned char)p[(*pos)++])) {
 	case 'b':
-		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD;
+		cp->font = ESCAPE_FONTBOLD;
 		goto mod;
 	case 'd':
 		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BALIGN;
@@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ mod:
 	case 'f':
 		break;
 	case 'i':
-		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
+		cp->font = ESCAPE_FONTITALIC;
 		goto mod;
 	case 'm':
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_TBLLAYOUT_MOD, ln, *pos, "m");
@@ -170,40 +173,34 @@ mod:
 		goto mod;
 	}
 
+	while (p[*pos] == ' ')
+		(*pos)++;
+
 	/* Ignore parenthised font names for now. */
 
 	if (p[*pos] == '(')
 		goto mod;
 
-	/* Support only one-character font-names for now. */
-
-	if (p[*pos] == '\0' || (p[*pos + 1] != ' ' && p[*pos + 1] != '.')) {
+	isz = 0;
+	if (p[*pos] != '\0')
+		isz++;
+	if (strchr(" .", p[*pos + isz]) == NULL)
+		isz++;
+	
+	fontesc = mandoc_font(p + *pos, isz);
+
+	switch (fontesc) {
+	case ESCAPE_FONTPREV:
+	case ESCAPE_ERROR:
 		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
 		    ln, *pos, "TS %s", p + *pos - 1);
-		if (p[*pos] != '\0')
-			(*pos)++;
-		if (p[*pos] != '\0')
-			(*pos)++;
-		goto mod;
-	}
-
-	switch (p[(*pos)++]) {
-	case '3':
-	case 'B':
-		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_BOLD;
-		goto mod;
-	case '2':
-	case 'I':
-		cp->flags |= TBL_CELL_ITALIC;
-		goto mod;
-	case '1':
-	case 'R':
-		goto mod;
+		break;
 	default:
-		mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_FT_BAD,
-		    ln, *pos - 1, "TS f%c", p[*pos - 1]);
-		goto mod;
+		cp->font = fontesc;
+		break;
 	}
+	*pos += isz;
+	goto mod;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -362,6 +359,7 @@ cell_alloc(struct tbl_node *tbl, struct 
 
 	p = mandoc_calloc(1, sizeof(*p));
 	p->spacing = SIZE_MAX;
+	p->font = ESCAPE_FONTROMAN;
 	p->pos = pos;
 
 	if ((pp = rp->last) != NULL) {
Index: tbl_term.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl_term.c,v
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -p -r1.74 tbl_term.c
--- tbl_term.c	25 Oct 2020 18:28:23 -0000	1.74
+++ tbl_term.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*	$Id: tbl_term.c,v 1.74 2020/10/25 18:28:23 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2009, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
- * Copyright (c) 2011-2020 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -923,10 +923,24 @@ tbl_word(struct termp *tp, const struct 
 	int		 prev_font;
 
 	prev_font = tp->fonti;
-	if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
-	else if (dp->layout->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
-		term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+	switch (dp->layout->font) {
+		case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BI);
+			break;
+		case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_BOLD);
+			break;
+		case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
+			term_fontpush(tp, TERMFONT_UNDER);
+			break;
+		case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+			break;
+		default:
+			abort();
+	}
 
 	term_word(tp, dp->string);
 
Index: term.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/term.c,v
retrieving revision 1.282
diff -u -p -r1.282 term.c
--- term.c	2 Sep 2020 16:40:36 -0000	1.282
+++ term.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -589,16 +589,18 @@ term_word(struct termp *p, const char *w
 			uc = *seq;
 			break;
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
 			term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_BOLD);
 			continue;
 		case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
 			term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_UNDER);
 			continue;
 		case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
 			term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_BI);
 			continue;
 		case ESCAPE_FONT:
-		case ESCAPE_FONTCW:
+		case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
 		case ESCAPE_FONTROMAN:
 			term_fontrepl(p, TERMFONT_NONE);
 			continue;
Index: tree.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tree.c,v
retrieving revision 1.89
diff -u -p -r1.89 tree.c
--- tree.c	8 Apr 2020 11:56:04 -0000	1.89
+++ tree.c	9 Aug 2021 07:50:03 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* $Id: tree.c,v 1.89 2020/04/08 11:56:04 schwarze Exp $ */
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2013-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (c) 2013-2015, 2017-2021 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -471,10 +471,28 @@ print_span(const struct tbl_span *sp, in
 			else {
 				printf("%d", cp->col);
 				print_cellt(dp->layout->pos);
-				if (cp->flags & TBL_CELL_BOLD)
+				switch (cp->font) {
+				case ESCAPE_FONTBOLD:
 					putchar('b');
-				if (cp->flags & TBL_CELL_ITALIC)
+					break;
+				case ESCAPE_FONTITALIC:
 					putchar('i');
+					break;
+				case ESCAPE_FONTBI:
+					fputs("bi", stdout);
+					break;
+				case ESCAPE_FONTCR:
+					putchar('c');
+					break;
+				case ESCAPE_FONTCB:
+					fputs("cb", stdout);
+					break;
+				case ESCAPE_FONTCI:
+					fputs("ci", stdout);
+					break;
+				default:
+					abort();
+				}
 				if (cp->flags & TBL_CELL_TALIGN)
 					putchar('t');
 				if (cp->flags & TBL_CELL_UP)
Index: regress/roff/esc/f.out_html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/roff/esc/f.out_html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 f.out_html
--- regress/roff/esc/f.out_html	3 Sep 2019 18:19:51 -0000	1.2
+++ regress/roff/esc/f.out_html	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 numbers: <b><i>bolditalic</i></b><b>bold</b><i>italic</i>roman
 letters: <b>bold</b><i>italic</i><b>back</b><b><i>bolditalic</i></b>roman
 multiletter: <b>bold</b>empty<i>italic</i>back<b><i>bolditalic</i></b>roman
-typewriter: <span class="Li">roman</span><b>bold</b><span class="Li">roman</span><i>italic</i>roman
+typewriter: <span class="Li">roman</span><span class="Li"><b>bold</b></span><span class="Li">roman</span><span class="Li"><i>italic</i></span>roman
Index: regress/roff/ft/badargs.out_html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/roff/ft/badargs.out_html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 badargs.out_html
--- regress/roff/ft/badargs.out_html	3 Sep 2019 18:19:52 -0000	1.4
+++ regress/roff/ft/badargs.out_html	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
   <br/>
   default font <i>italic</i> <b><i>bold italic</i></b>
-    <span class="Li">typeqriter</span> <span class="Li">roman</span> <b>bold</b>
-    <i>italic</i> <b>bold</b> <b>still bold</b> <i>italic</i> <i>back to
-    bold</i> <i>back to italic</i>
+    <span class="Li">typeqriter</span> <span class="Li">roman</span>
+    <span class="Li"><b>bold</b></span> <span class="Li"><i>italic</i></span>
+    <b>bold</b> <b>still bold</b> <i>italic</i> <i>back to bold</i> <i>back to
+    italic</i>
   <br/>
Index: regress/tbl/mod/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/tbl/mod/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 Makefile
--- regress/tbl/mod/Makefile	27 Jun 2017 19:51:48 -0000	1.4
+++ regress/tbl/mod/Makefile	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 # $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 2015/02/10 11:02:19 schwarze Exp $
 
-REGRESS_TARGETS	 = badfont expand expand-toowide font misalign spacing width
-LINT_TARGETS	 = badfont font
+REGRESS_TARGETS	 = badfont expand expand-toowide font font-eol
+REGRESS_TARGETS	+= misalign spacing width
+LINT_TARGETS	 = badfont font font-eol
 
-# groff-1.22.3 defects:
+# groff-1.22.4 defects:
 # - The "f" font modifier swallows a following newline character.
 # - When space is insufficient (on either side) for properly aligning
 #   a number, GNU tbl(1) moves the number too much to the right,
 #   overflowing the column, even if space would be sufficient without
 #   left padding.
 
-SKIP_GROFF	 = badfont misalign
+SKIP_GROFF	 = font-eol misalign
 
 .include <bsd.regress.mk>
Index: regress/tbl/mod/badfont.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/tbl/mod/badfont.in,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 badfont.in
--- regress/tbl/mod/badfont.in	4 Jul 2017 15:26:56 -0000	1.2
+++ regress/tbl/mod/badfont.in	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 .\" $OpenBSD: badfont.in,v 1.2 2017/07/04 14:53:27 schwarze Exp $
-.TH TBL-MOD-BADFONT 1 "February 10, 2015"
+.TH TBL-MOD-BADFONT 1 "August 9, 2021"
 .SH NAME
 tbl-mod-badfont \- invalid font modifiers in table layouts
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 normal text
 .TS
 box tab(:);
-lfB lf
+lfI lfX
+lfB lfIB
 lfI lf.
 lfB lfI.
-bold:none
-italic:none
+italic:one char
+bold:two chars
+italic:dot
 bold:italic
 .TE
Index: regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_ascii
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_ascii,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 badfont.out_ascii
--- regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_ascii	28 Jun 2021 20:13:08 -0000	1.2
+++ regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_ascii	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ NNAAMMEE
 DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
        normal text
 
-       +----------------+
-       |bboolldd     none   |
-       |_i_t_a_l_i_c   none   |
-       |bboolldd     _i_t_a_l_i_c |
-       +----------------+
-OpenBSD                        February 10, 2015            TBL-MOD-BADFONT(1)
+       +-------------------+
+       |_i_t_a_l_i_c   one char  |
+       |bboolldd     two chars |
+       |_i_t_a_l_i_c   dot       |
+       |bboolldd     _i_t_a_l_i_c    |
+       +-------------------+
+OpenBSD                         August 9, 2021              TBL-MOD-BADFONT(1)
Index: regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_lint
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_lint,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 badfont.out_lint
--- regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_lint	4 Jul 2017 15:26:56 -0000	1.4
+++ regress/tbl/mod/badfont.out_lint	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-mandoc: badfont.in:9:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS f
-mandoc: badfont.in:10:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS f.
+mandoc: badfont.in:9:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS fX
+mandoc: badfont.in:10:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS fIB
+mandoc: badfont.in:11:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS f.
Index: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.in
===================================================================
RCS file: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.in
diff -N regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.in
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.in	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: badfont.in,v 1.2 2017/07/04 14:53:27 schwarze Exp $
+.TH TBL-MOD-FONT-EOL 1 "August 9, 2021"
+.SH NAME
+tbl-mod-font-eol \- font modifier at eol in table layout
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+normal text
+.TS
+box tab(:);
+lfB lf
+lfB lfI.
+bold:none
+bold:italic
+.TE
Index: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_ascii
===================================================================
RCS file: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_ascii
diff -N regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_ascii
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_ascii	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+TBL-MOD-FONT-EOL(1)         General Commands Manual        TBL-MOD-FONT-EOL(1)
+
+NNAAMMEE
+       tbl-mod-font-eol - font modifier at eol in table layout
+
+DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
+       normal text
+
+       +--------------+
+       |bboolldd   none   |
+       |bboolldd   _i_t_a_l_i_c |
+       +--------------+
+OpenBSD                         August 9, 2021             TBL-MOD-FONT-EOL(1)
Index: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_lint
===================================================================
RCS file: regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_lint
diff -N regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_lint
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ regress/tbl/mod/font-eol.out_lint	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mandoc: font-eol.in:9:7: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS f
Index: regress/tbl/mod/font.out_lint
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/regress/tbl/mod/font.out_lint,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -r1.5 font.out_lint
--- regress/tbl/mod/font.out_lint	4 Jul 2017 15:26:56 -0000	1.5
+++ regress/tbl/mod/font.out_lint	9 Aug 2021 07:50:04 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-mandoc: font.in:9:6: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS fCW|ci
 mandoc: font.in:19:2: WARNING: tab in filled text
 mandoc: font.in:19:4: WARNING: tab in filled text
 mandoc: font.in:19:6: WARNING: tab in filled text

Message #34 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: наб <[email protected]>

To: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: [PATCH][Debian#992002] tbl: allow two-character fonts and format fonts in -Thtml

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:08:31 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:58:19AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Nab wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:24:53PM +0200:
> > tbl's -Thtml ignores font requests;
> Not in CVS HEAD; see https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/mandoc/tbl_html.c revision 1.34,
> committed on May 16 earlier this year.
Oh, indeed. I tested and based my patch on 1.14.5 from Debian,
didn't realise that's almost two years old by now.
Will use the CVS next time.

> I started from your patch and changed a few aspects:
>  * You couldn't possibly know that i'm trying to work towards a
>    unified system for identifying fonts using the mandoc.h
>    enum mandoc_esc ESCAPE_FONT* identifiers.  Having different
>    font identifiers for each output module is not good.
>    So i added ESCAPE_FONTCB and ESCAPE_FONTCI and used those.
>    A nice side effect is that CB and CI now work in HTML
>    for all of \f, .ft, and tbl(7) f and that tbl(7) fBI
>    now also works for terminal output.

> >     <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
> >     <td><b>text</b></td>
> >     <td><i>text</i></td>
> These become:
>       <td><span class="Li"><b>text</b></span></td>
>       <td><span class="Li"><i>text</i></span></td>
This is great news! A bunch of my pages use C[BI] and the HTML renders
look much better, thanks!

>  * GNU tbl(1) appears to ignore space characters between the f
>    modifier and the font name, so "lf   B" is the same as "lfB".
Huh, so it does! That's not explicitly mentioned by the manual and so
I didn't think to test it. Now, tbl(1) says
  Key characters can be separated by spaces or tabs.
so consider the following document:
-- >8 --
.TS
lfBI	lf BI	lf	BI	.
a	b	c
.TE
-- >8 --
(In order, none, space, tab follow 'f';
 base64: LlRTCmxmQkkJbGYgQkkJbGYJQkkJLgphCWIJYwouVEUK)

groff renders it with a, b, and c as BI,
but mandoc with your patch with a+b as BI and c as R, with -Tlint:
  mandoc: ./q.1:2:14: WARNING: unknown font, skipping request: TS f	BI	.

If you change tbl_layout.c L171 to match L75:
-- >8 --
-	while (p[*pos] == ' ')
+	while (p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '\t')
-- >8 --
and L187:
-- >8 --
-	if (strchr(" .", p[*pos + isz]) == NULL)
+	if (strchr(" \t.", p[*pos + isz]) == NULL)
-- >8 --
The document renders correctly.

> > Renders to a teletype with the expected fonts:
> >   b, ul, bul;  b, ul, bul;  normal, b, ul
> Not quite.  The expected output for lbi is ul, not bul.
> The i overrides the b rather than add to it.
> So lbi is the same as lfI, not as lfBI.
Indeed, it looks like I got confused by the groff parsing
and thought it'd accumulate instead.

> Could you please check out from CVS (instead of the last release),
> apply the following patch, and tell me whether it looks reasonable
> and works for you?
Yeah, save for the tab thing above, I haven't managed to fault it,
in tests or real pages.

> When this gets committed, i will credit you for reporting the
> missing feature.  Do i understand correctly that "Nabija" is your
> first name and "Czleweli" your last name?
They aren't, but either "наб" or "nabijaczleweli" is fine.

Best,
наб

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Message #39 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: [PATCH][Debian#992002] tbl: allow two-character fonts and format fonts in -Thtml

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:43:58 +0200

Hi Nab,

Nab wrote on Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 01:08:31AM +0200:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:58:19AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Nab wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:24:53PM +0200:

>>> tbl's -Thtml ignores font requests;

>> Not in CVS HEAD; see https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/mandoc/tbl_html.c revision 1.34,
>> committed on May 16 earlier this year.

> Oh, indeed. I tested and based my patch on 1.14.5 from Debian,
> didn't realise that's almost two years old by now.
> Will use the CVS next time.

Note that so far, everybody who contributed code to mandoc provided
their first and last names.  I'm not sure it is strictly required in
the legal sense, but i do consider it beneficial both for authors
and for users.  The benefit for authors is that it makes it easier
for them to exercise their rights under the Berne Convention, in
particular their moral rights under that Convention, for example
to protect themselves if somebody abuses their contribution for
slander.  The benefit for users of knowing who the Copyright holders
are is also obvious, even if the code is BSD or ISC licensed:
It makes Copyright and license audits easier and reduces the risk
of suddenly being sued by parties the users didn't even know existed.

In this case, it isn't needed because by mere chance, even though
several of your ideas remained in the committed patch, none of your
code did, because i switched from TBL_CELL_BOLD and TBL_CELL_ITALIC
to ESCAPE_FONT*.  Ideas aren't subject to Copyright, only text is,
and for crediting a person who provided bug reports, feature requests,
and ideas, a pseudonym is sufficient.

>>>     <td><span class="Li">text</span></td>
>>>     <td><b>text</b></td>
>>>     <td><i>text</i></td>

>> These become:
>>       <td><span class="Li"><b>text</b></span></td>
>>       <td><span class="Li"><i>text</i></span></td>

> This is great news! A bunch of my pages use C[BI] and the HTML renders
> look much better, thanks!

Note that i don't recommend using these fonts in manual pages.
Even with groff, typical installations don't prodide CB and CI
fonts for terminal output, which typically results in warnings
being thrown.  The details may vary among operating systems and
package managers even for the same version of groff.  Portability
to other formatters (like Heirloom, Plan 9, DWB, Solaris, neatroff)
is even more doubtful, but i don't know any details about that.

But as a rule, mandoc(1) even supports features if using them is
unwise, as long as that doesn't cause an undue burden.  One reason
to do so is making existing pages look better, no matter how good
or bad the style is that they are using.  Not supporting a feature
hurts end users - who aren't responsible for author's choices which
features to use.  But that a feature is supported by mandoc(1)
should not be misinterpreted by authors as a free pass to go on a
rampage and employ the most arcane and brittle features they manage
to find.

>>  * GNU tbl(1) appears to ignore space characters between the f
>>    modifier and the font name, so "lf   B" is the same as "lfB".

> Huh, so it does! That's not explicitly mentioned by the manual and so
> I didn't think to test it.

No, i'm not even convinced it is intentional, and relying on it in
any document would be a thoroughly bad idea.  But mandoc(1) aims to
be bug-compatible with groff unless there is a good reason to differ.

>   Now, tbl(1) says
>   Key characters can be separated by spaces or tabs.
> so consider the following document:
> -- >8 --
> .TS
> lfBI	lf BI	lf	BI	.
> a	b	c
> .TE
> -- >8 --
> (In order, none, space, tab follow 'f';
>  base64: LlRTCmxmQkkJbGYgQkkJbGYJQkkJLgphCWIJYwouVEUK)
> 
> groff renders it with a, b, and c as BI,
> but mandoc with your patch with a+b as BI and c as R, with -Tlint:
>   mandoc: ./q.1:2:14: WARNING: unknown font, \
>                       skipping request: TS f	BI	.
> 
> If you change tbl_layout.c L171 to match L75:
> -- >8 --
> -	while (p[*pos] == ' ')
> +	while (p[*pos] == ' ' || p[*pos] == '\t')
> -- >8 --
> and L187:
> -- >8 --
> -	if (strchr(" .", p[*pos + isz]) == NULL)
> +	if (strchr(" \t.", p[*pos + isz]) == NULL)
> -- >8 --
> The document renders correctly.

Done in the commit cited below, thanks for pointing out that quirk.

>> Could you please check out from CVS (instead of the last release),
>> apply the following patch, and tell me whether it looks reasonable
>> and works for you?

> Yeah, save for the tab thing above, I haven't managed to fault it,
> in tests or real pages.

Thank you very much for testing.  That patch ended up growing
tentacles into quite a number of files, so the additional testing
is highly appreciated.

Here is the committed patch:

https://inbox.vuxu.org/mandoc-source/[email protected]/

Yours,
  Ingo

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