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Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros


From: Michael(tm) Smith
Subject: Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:16:32 +0900
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>, 2007-02-04 03:14 -0500:

> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> > Do you see any disadvantage?  Can you check your man page corpus
> > whether authors ever use a combination of .IP/.LP/.PP/.P/.HP just for
> > the purpose of getting two empty lines? 
> 
> I have *never*, in fact, seen this done.  If it were to happen, the doclifter
> translation would fail to validate because it would genrate an empty 
> <para></para> tag pair, which would then fail validation -- <para> is
> required to have content.

<para></para> is valid. It's not required to have content.
A <para></para> instance won't generate validation errors.

  --Mike

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