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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:11:28 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> > It shows me that in my corpus, DS is in
> > these 21 files:
> 
> Okay, so this effectively means that two people assume .DS
> exists, a Mutt and a FreeRADIUS documentation author. So I
> would not assume that it had been part of a variant of -man
> before.

You could be right.  They might well both have gotten confused
and imported it separately from mm.

Regardless of where it came from, it would still be the second most
effective way to clean .ti, .in, and .nf/.fi calls out of my corpus.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>




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