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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:30:25AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
[...]
> 
> >   .ds Am &
> 
> Added to doc-ditroff and doc-nroff.
> 
OK.

> > 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.
> 
You might want to talk to Thomas Klausner <address@hidden>.
He was working on adopting mdocNG to NetBSD, at least last
time I talked to him back in October 2001.


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