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Re: [Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:11:50 +0100 (CET)

> .\" NS Dd user macro (not parsed, not callable)

I no longer know, sorry.  It marks documentation lines, that's for
sure.

> My first guess was it had something to do with comment-stripping for
> distributed tmac files, but that wouldn't explain why unprefixed
> comments are stripped too.

Well, `doc.tmac' doesn't appear to be stripped at all.  And the `doc-'
prefix isn't removed either.  Hmm...  I seem to remember that we have
decided to drop that completely due to the increased speed of
computers.

> The description of the .HTML-NS macro (in tmac/www.tmac.in) would
> suggest something debugging-related:

This is unrelated.


    Werner



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