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Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.
From: |
Tadziu Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references. |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:08:06 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
> Jerry Saltzer's RUNOFF (1964) did not have a .tr request, [...]
> By AT&T Version 3 UNIX (1973), nroff(1) did have it, [...]
Doug McIlroy's GECOS runoff had it (the memo from 1969
even mentions its utility in creating unpaddable spaces),
so I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that this feature had also
been adopted in Unix nroff from the beginning.
> so it's not clear to me whether unix v1 roff(1) already
> supported the .tr request. But even if it did, that
> would not have helped: programmable macros only appeared
> in nroff(1), in 1972, at least a year after the v1 manual
> pages were completed - let alone begun.
I see. So while the v3 nroff manual page already mentions
macros (and the .tr request), the manual page itself was
still written using raw nroff requests. For v4 the manpages
*were* rewritten to use macros (so it's not like editing all
the manpages was considered too much work at the time), but
auto-capitalization for section headers was not considered --
or perhaps it was considered but consciously rejected because
situations existed where it would be detrimental?
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/14
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., John Gardner, 2018/12/14
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.,
Tadziu Hoffmann <=
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., John Gardner, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., John Gardner, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., G. Branden Robinson, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., John Gardner, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., John Gardner, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., G. Branden Robinson, 2018/12/16
- Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references., Ingo Schwarze, 2018/12/16