Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB

[Gunnar Ritter]

M Bianchi <address@hidden> wrote:

> This would seem be argue for structural macros.  E.g.
>
>  .SH  NAME
>  .NamePurpose  "bzip2, bunzip2"  "a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.3"
>  .NamePurpose  "bzcat"           "decompresses files to stdout"
>  .NamePurpose  "bzip2recover"    "recovers data from damaged bzip2 files"

These macros are rather superfluous as the structure is
implied by the "name \- purpose" convention in the name
section line anyway. Moreover, the name section is a
particularly bad place to use macros as it is not only
read by manual page viewers or converters, but also by
indexing tools like "apropos" or "whatis" (which rely
precisely on the "name \- purpose" scheme).

        Gunnar