Re: [Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] Re: #72 rst2man: Show reference targets

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2023-08-05, Dmitry Shachnev via Docutils-develop wrote:

> > Currently, the manpage writer writes a reference like `ALT TEXT <URL>`
> > as just `ALT TEXT`, with alternate font. Would it be better to render
> > it as, for example, `ALT TEXT [URL]`, so the information is not lost?

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> Another possibility would be using the `.UR` / `.UE` macros to produce
> hyperlinks. They are described in groff_man(7) man page.

> The macros themselves are supported by groff since 2007, but the next
> groff version will enable them for terminal devices (using OSC 8 escape
> sequence). See groff commit 9dadd72a3c9cd40c20e06e80e918a68badf83b0f.

> Debian's groff version 1.23.0-1 (and newer) already includes support
> for them.

How would this be handled by other (t)roff converters?

Günter