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

[Gunnar Ritter]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html
>
> However, those rules are not really helpful IMHO in our discussion how
> such macros should look like.

It gives an overview about the types of arguments that need
to be handled by such macros. For example, it shows that
there are non-optional options for which .OP in the given
form is also not sufficient.

In the real world outside the standard, there are also
other types of arguments, e.g. optional option-arguments.

A -man extension for the public should be comprehensive
enough to handle all these cases.

        Gunnar