Re: [Groff] me docs

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > The question is whether man pages should use this mechanism also --
> > > probably an overkill since `man' handles this properly.
> > 
> > We could provide some man facilities to groffview.  Maybe a .manso 
> > request.
> 
> You probably mean a .manso macro...
> 
> Anyway, man pages can be rather easily recognized with grog.

I think this is overkill too. There's no need for groff to reinvent
man(1). Some implementations of man even provide the -l option or some
other way for you to look at man-formatted files without having to put
them in a proper hierarchy.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden