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Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
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Damian McGuckin |
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Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:42:47 +1000 (AEST) |
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Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, James K. Lowden wrote:
The troff system was designed to be typed at a keyboard. The
dot-on-the-left rule might be ugly, and the requests/macros terse, but
the benefit to the user is relatively few keystrokes above those needed
for the text.
A corollary of this is that if you find that a document has a high
percentage of troff (macro) commands within it, your document will
probably not read so well.
In the case of man-pages, this could mean that the explanation of the
command or library/device interface in question is overly complicated.
Regards - Damian
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- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/25
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/26
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/26
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/26
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, James K. Lowden, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages,
Damian McGuckin <=
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, John Gardner, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/29
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, James K. Lowden, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Deri James, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Deri James, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/28