Re: [Groff] address@hidden: Bug#163195: groff-base: mdoc should define string Am]

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm not quite sure why these are defined in andoc, as they seem to be
> rather mdoc-ish.

Indeed.  Even if they are meant for man also, they had to be applied
directly in an-old.tmac since a lot of people (including me) use -man
and not -mandoc in most cases.

> The new strings are:
> 
>   .ds Lt <
>   .ds Gt >

Already in mdoc.

>   .ds Am &

Added to doc-ditroff and doc-nroff.

>   .ds Le \(<=
>   .ds Ge \(>=

Already in mdoc.

> NetBSD manual pages have started using the predefined string \*[Am]
> for the ampersand.  Unfortunately our mdoc package does not support
> this.

It's a pity that the NetBSD people introduce such changes without
contacting the groff maintainers.  While coordination with FreeBSD
works perfectly, it seems to me that the NetBSD people either don't
know that groff is maintained again or that they are ignorant (which I
don't hope).  Who is responsible for groff in the NetBSD group?  I
want to contact him or her.


    Werner