Re: [bug #53547] [PATCH] tmac/groff_ms.7.man: Change bold '[' and ']' to roman and other tidying

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 01:31:04PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Branden,
> 
> G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 02:42:27AM -0400:
> 
> > Follow-up Comment #6, bug #53547 (project groff):
> > 
> > I did not find any need for this:
> > 
> > \# The next argument must be longer than the indent from .TP (8n)
> > 
> > or the spaces they refer to, nor for the transparent line indicators.
> 
> I don't have the slightest idea what Bjarni thought when
> proposing this change:
> 

  This was an experimentation

> @@ -276,7 +276,10 @@
>  in the order shown.
>  .
>  .TP
> -.B .RP [no]
> +\#.B .RP [no]
> +\!.B .RP \c
> +\# The next argument must be longer than the indent from .TP (8n)
> +.RB [ no ]\ \ \ \ \ \"
>  Specifies the report format for your document.
>  .
>  The report format creates a separate cover page.
> 
> It looks totally bogus to me on more than one level.  You most
> certainly do not want any of "\#", "\!", "\ \ \ " in a manual
> page and you also most certainly do not want
> 
>   .B anything \c
>   .RB anything
> 

  Yes, this is realy crazy.  I must have been infected by "bold roman
italic ...".

  The "\!" and "\ \ \ ..." are not needed when the request ".itc" is
used instead of ".it".

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Bjarni I. Gislason