[bug #65761] [man] macro TP with '\c' and a single-font macro in the tag fails to format correctly

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #65761 (group groff):

                  Status:                    None => Rejected               
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: macro TP with '\c' and a single-font macro in the
tag fails to format correctly => [man] macro TP with '\c' and a single-font
macro in the tag fails to format correctly

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This ticket is essentially a request to revert the fix for bug #51468...which
was also filed by you.

Please consider making up your mind on this issue; you've been dithering over
it for fully ten years.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42907

But regardless of your personal opinions, the status quo is one that keeps
historical man pages formatting correctly, and that fact weighs more heavily
to me.  For AT&T man compatibility, the single-font macros' input traps do not
respect output line continuation with `\c`.

In practice you seldom need to follow a single-font macro with a font
alternation macro.

Rewrite


.TP
.B \-\-\~\c
.RI [ args ]


as


.TP
.BR \-\-\~ \c
.RI [ args ]


or


.TP
.BR \-\- \~\c
.RI [ args ]


...for instance.

There are many other possibilities.

Rejecting.


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