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[groff] 08/09: groff_ms(7): Remove "Bell localisms" material.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 08/09: groff_ms(7): Remove "Bell localisms" material.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 09:31:19 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 521523ae33554c9d8f0296ef4cd35479b43ac429
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Mar 3 18:37:00 2021 +1100

    groff_ms(7): Remove "Bell localisms" material.
---
 tmac/groff_ms.7.man | 31 -------------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tmac/groff_ms.7.man b/tmac/groff_ms.7.man
index 7753b81..3e269d8 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_ms.7.man
+++ b/tmac/groff_ms.7.man
@@ -1400,37 +1400,6 @@ The error-handling policy of
 is to detect and report errors,
 rather than silently to ignore them.
 .
-.IP \[bu]
-Some Bell Labs localisms are not implemented by default.
-.
-However, if you call the otherwise undocumented
-.B SC
-section-header macro, you will enable implementations of three other
-archaic Bell Labs macros:
-.BR UC ,
-.BR P1 ,
-and
-.BR P2 .
-.
-These are not enabled by default because (a)\~they were not documented,
-in the original
-.IR "ms manual" ,
-and (b)\~the
-.B P1
-and
-.B UC
-macros both collide with different macros in the Berkeley version of
-.IR ms .
-.
-.IP
-These emulations are sufficient to give back the 1976 Kernighan\~&
-Cherry paper
-.I Typesetting Mathematics \[en] User's Guide
-its section headings, and restore some text that had gone missing as
-arguments of undefined macros.
-.
-No warranty express or implied is given as to how well the typographic
-details these produce match the original Bell Labs macros.
 .
 .IP \[bu]
 Berkeley localisms, in particular the



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