Re: [Groff] man pages for macro packages

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Well, sure. But the fact remains... whether its file was named tmac.s or
> tmac.ms or ms.tmac, it has always[1] been referred to as "the -ms macro
> package" or just "-ms macros." Manpages have a FILES subsection, where
> we can point out the actual path to the macro file if needed.
> 
> My point was (and is) that there's an established convention already.
> I see *your* point, though, w.r.t. the -mwww macros. Here we have a
> good old culture clash... do we accommodate the old folks like me
> (I've been using variants of troff since before the Linux 2.4 kernel
> maintainer was born! agh do I feel old tonight) and call it -mwww, or 
> avoid confusing non-experts and just call it www?
> 
> Sometimes, it's OK to break convention. This looks to me like a good
> example of one of those times....

Well, the names `man', `ms', `mm' make sense: `manual', `manuscript',
`memo'.  I think they have been deliberately chosen to coincide with
the -m command line option.  So the leading `m' doesn't stand for
`macro' at all.


    Werner