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bug #65697: Add info to comment headers of font description files groff tools generate

Submitter:	Dave <barx>
Submitted:	Mon 06 May 2024 04:03:53 PM UTC


Category:	Utilities	Severity:	1 - Wish
Item Group:	Feature change	Status:	In Progress
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	gbranden
Open/Closed:	Open	Planned Release:	None

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Wed 21 Aug 2024 09:35:37 PM UTC, comment #1:

commit 66df2be1a90c88efda979305cde588c1ed3e3b7c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 21 08:20:53 2024 -0500

    [afmtodit]: Improve generated comments.

    * src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl: Improve information written to
      generated font description files in comments. Name the AFM and map
      files used. Report any options specified on the command line. The
      idea is to make it easier for future (and current) maintainers to
      update such files because years pass between occurrences, and
      institutional memory is, if not lost, laborious to dredge up. This
      practice might also assist users in producing groff description files
      for their own fonts. Also write out a glyph's corresponding Unicode
      code point in the comment field only if one is defined. Otherwise we
      get a comment marker followed by a tab and a newline, which Git marks
      in radioactive red.

    Begins addressing <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65697>.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>

Mon 06 May 2024 04:03:53 PM UTC, original submission:

As mentioned in bug #63018, afmtodit's generated headers could additionally include the names of the source files that generate them, and the presence/values of command-line options that affect the generated contents.

Branden also notes there, "Could affect afmtodit, hpftodit, tfmtodit, addftinfo, and xtotroff."

Dave <barx>

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