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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:49:40 +0100 (CET) |
> Yes, normally I would be a stickler for backwards-compatibility to
> legacy Unixes. However, I feel that in the particular case of
> .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE there are several factors which, taken together,
> would make the slight degree of breakage involved an acceptable
> trade-off. [...]
To summarize:
. .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE should be added to the man macros.
. .SY and .OP together with .TQ (as the `standard' extension to .TP)
should be used within man pages, but its definitions should be
copied to the limbo of each man page since we can't assume that
those macros are present in any other man implementation.
What else?
BTW, I don't mind to recommend that .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE are defined in
the limbo also; processing time and size constraints in man pages for
those few macros can be really neglected IMHO.
Werner
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/24
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/26
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/26
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/27
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/27
- [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Meg McRoberts, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Clarke Echols, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/29