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

[Michael(tm) Smith]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>, 2006-12-28 18:07 -0500:

> In translating to DocBook, these indented displays would be 
> rendered with various nestings of <blockquote> and <literallayout>
> tags.  I don't presently do this, because I don't presently notice
> whether .DS has an indent argument or not -- but if .DS with optional
> indent were in man I could support that in about ten minutes flat.

I think doing that would be an abuse of <blockquote>. I hope
doclifter isn't currently using <blockquote> that way in other
places. It's not supposed to be a means to indent things. A
particular processing application may or or may not render it with
an indent. It would be a mistake to assume that every processing
application will indent <blockquote> output.

  --Mike

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