[bug #52486] [PATCH] groff_hdtbl.7.man: remove .nh/.hy pairs related to .nf/.fi pairs

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #52486 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.23.0                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I fixed this independently a couple of months ago along with some other
changes.


commit dfa7b3108f24c30a1fe7b723d2c7fee7ebbd9671
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 4 21:41:11 2020 +1100

    man pages: Convert .nf/fi/nh/hy nonense to .EX/EE.
    
    Prompted by John Gardner on the groff mailing list.  I hadn't realized
    how close we were to killing the last of these off.
    
    Several examples render in roman (Courier roman on typesetters) now
    instead of bold, or in bold only for portions of mixed I/O that are user
    input, just as groff_man_style(7) recommends.
    
    No textual changes (well, not to _words_) despite severe temptation.
    
[...]
    * contrib/hdtbl/groff_hdtbl.7.man:
[...]
    * tmac/groff_www.7.man: Replace nf/(nh)/(ft)/.../(ft)/(hy)/fi sequences
      with .EX/EE.  That is what the macros are there for: to turn off
      filling and hyphenation, and select a font family that will stand out
      (Courier) so that all three styles are available, and unlike bold,
      allows character-cell alignment since it is monospaced.  As part of
      groff's unwritten man page style guide, examples are always indented
      as well, which mitigates the absense of a font family change.
    
    * contrib/hdtbl/groff_hdtbl.7.man: Also use .ne requests in troff mode
      consistently for table examples (two examples already did).  I'm
      conflicted about this; it's against our current portability advice but
      keeps are a pretty basic typographical thing to want/have.  Maybe we
      should bring ms(7)'s .KS/.KE into man(7)--muahahahahaha.  (Less
      radically, we could make .EX and .EE use diversions.)
    
[...]


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