Re: [groff] anyone seen ".ny0" ?

[Walter Harms]

> Mike Bianchi <address@hidden> hat am 24. März 2019 um 19:42 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> > .ny0
> 
> look for a macro definition:
>       .de ny
>         :
>       ..
> 
> In the old days, no macro name was more than 2 characters so nroff/troff would
> understand   .ny0   to be  macro ny  with  argument 0 .
>                                                               Mike
> 
> 

There is no macro definition .de ny.
I guess that is a left over from ancient times.
I wanted to make sure there is no .ny0 definition inside *roff 
that i was missing.

re,
 wh


> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 07:16:07PM +0100, Walter Harms wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > while looking at the xorg man pages there came
> > a question what this  .ny0 may mean (i shorted that of cause):
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> > .ny0
> > .TH XtAppNextEvent __libmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ "XT FUNCTIONS"
> > .SH NAME
> > 
> > .....
> > 
> > I could not find this in the groff manual. It seems to do nothing.
> > Any ideas ?
> > 
> > re,
> >  wh
> > 
> 
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