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Re: [Groff] inconsistency between .R and \*R in man.tmac


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] inconsistency between .R and \*R in man.tmac
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:29:05 +0100 (CET)

> OK, so how about this.
> 
> Have \*R be (Reg) as God intended.  But also trap any arguments
> being passed to .R and error else they'll otherwise disappear as we
> saw with mkisofs.  The use of just `.R' on a line to affect the next
> line won't work but the next line of text won't disappear so it's
> not too bad.

Sounds good!  Do you volunteer to supply a patch?

> Perhaps the Ultrix-specific file can disappear in the future?

I think it's only necessary the remove the definition of the .R macro.


    Werner

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