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Re: [Groff] a cool extension to tmac.an


From: Fabrizio Polacco
Subject: Re: [Groff] a cool extension to tmac.an
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:27:28 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.0.1i

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:35:05PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > > This is by far the best solution I've seen to date to eliminate
> > > footers and headers -- well, it could be possibly improved to have
> > > a footer at the very end of the document using the `em' request...
> > 
> > That would be great! ... and fix bug #65735 :-)
> 
> What about this (to be put into e.g. man.local):
> 
> .de an-end
> .nr % 1
> .sp 3
> .an-p-footer
> ..
> .
> .if n .em an-end
> 

COOL! Exactly what was asked, thanx a lot!
I'd put it in 1.16-2 and put it into woody, so we'll hear more comments
(actually it was only in experimental).

> 
> Shall this become the default?  Opinions, please.  Of course,
> something similar had to be provided for mdoc...
> 

well, I had requests for that (a lot) and no complains at all :-)
I vote for its inclusion in tmac.an


fab
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