[bug #61022] [ms] documention neglects to mention FP macro

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #61022 (project groff):

Thanks, Keith.  You've presented a solid use case for .FP, I think.

The other thing that bugs me about footnote paragraphing is how elaborate the
semantics of FF 0 are.  The paragraph is indented _unless_ there's nothing to
indent it with.  This is compatible with Heirloom Doctools troff and I suppose
it makes sense for that sort of specialized, first-page-only footnote that
doesn't have a marker but instead serves as some sort of acknowledgement in
some academic/journal styles.  But if it's that specialized, I don't see the
harm in telling people to set FF to 2 for that unique, marker-less footnote
and change to another format for all other footnotes if desired.

I'm sort of tempted to simplify it and make the correspondence between
footnote formats and paragraph styles explicit.

0,1 PP
2   LP
3   IP

What do you think?

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