Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> 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.

See my long reply to Larry Kollar.  It's not clear to me that anything
interesting can be deduced here, but I'm open to suggestions.  What
kind of semantic-level tagging could we use in this situation?  Would
<blockquote> be the right thing here?

Oh, and if it's not obvious, I'm quite grateful to you and Larry and
the other participants in this thread for the critique you are 
developing.  I've been working in relative isolation on this program
for a *long* time -- it feels good, and rather bracing, to have my
assumptions questioned a bit.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>