Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

[Gunnar Ritter]

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

> In general I might agree with you.  However, .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE
> have a couple of interesting properties:
>
> 1. They are, by far, the most commonly invoked man macros that don't 
> exist. :-)  That is, significant numbers of man-page writers think they're
> there already.

How significant?

> I don't think your citation of -mdoc is really on point.

I think it is. -mdoc essentially results in non-portable
documentation, and people do not like that. A nice example:

<http://groups.google.com/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/25dfcf9f59e304bf/a35687b22d253cd7?lnk=st&q=&rnum=7#a35687b22d253cd7>

        Gunnar