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Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation


From: Gunnar Ritter
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:15:06 +0100
User-agent: Heirloom mailx 12.2pre 12/25/06

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> > I have often used .in (and seen it used) in a context like
> > <informalexample>. Looking at a few pages, it seems that
> > others have used .ti similarly.
>
> Can you send me an example?

This is from mush(1), July 17, 1996:

An example:
.sp
.ti +2
goto msg: `pick \-f argv`
.sp
This causes the current message . . .

Others are in nasm(1), v. 0.98.38; sort(1), Unix 7th edition.
Equivalent use of .in seems much more frequent.

        Gunnar




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