[bug #51021] [PATCH] groff_man(7) manual page: recommendations for escape sequences

[Ingo Schwarze]

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                 Summary: [PATCH] groff_man(7) manual page: recommendations
for escape sequences
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: schwarze
            Submitted on: Sat 13 May 2017 11:29:48 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wishlist
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

It was recently discussed on <address@hidden> that including basic style
recommendations into the groff_man(7) manual page would be helpful for manual
page authors, both to make it easier to find low-level idioms needed in manual
pages without requiring authors to read all the whole, long groff(7) and
groff_char(7) manuals, and also to discourage excessive use of low level
syntax that puts portability in jeopardy.

That is a very diverse topic, so i'm focussing on one very specific aspect
here: recommendations for escape sequences.

Note that i'm deliberately not attempting to mix any other issues or
improvements into this patch.

I have ordered the list in ASCII-alphabetic order.



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Date: Sat 13 May 2017 11:29:48 PM UTC  Name: groff_man.patch  Size: 5kB   By:
schwarze

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=40679>

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