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Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros
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Michael(tm) Smith |
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Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:16:32 +0900 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>, 2007-02-04 03:14 -0500:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> > Do you see any disadvantage? Can you check your man page corpus
> > whether authors ever use a combination of .IP/.LP/.PP/.P/.HP just for
> > the purpose of getting two empty lines?
>
> I have *never*, in fact, seen this done. If it were to happen, the doclifter
> translation would fail to validate because it would genrate an empty
> <para></para> tag pair, which would then fail validation -- <para> is
> required to have content.
<para></para> is valid. It's not required to have content.
A <para></para> instance won't generate validation errors.
--Mike
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