Re: [Groff] Progress report on the portability audit -- and what to do about URLs?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> Please bear in mind that it is not the goal of man pages which come
> with the groff package to be readable by all Unix versions!  I'm
> definitely *not* going to replace \[xx] with \(xx, for example.

Unfortunately, we might need this change anyway.  I'm checking
now...the KDE browser supports \[], but manServer doesn't.  If
it's OK with you to break compatibility with manServer, then
this is fine.  Since it can't handle .if, we probably would
have had to give up anyway.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>