Re: [Groff] Eric Raymond on groff and TeX

[Michael Witten]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Tadziu Hoffmann
<address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Macros come closer to "structural", but really aren't.
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> I disagree.  There is no principal difference between
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>  All your base
>  .EMPH are
>  belong to us!
>
> and
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>  All your base <emphasis>are</emphasis> belong to us!
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> It's a purely a matter of syntax, not intent.

That's because your example is cherry-picked and disingenuous (or naive).

Structure implies abstraction, which implies a directed acyclic graph
of concepts.