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[Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files?
From: |
John Gardner |
Subject: |
[Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files? |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:38:52 +1100 |
I'm digging through Groff's source, and I found this puzzling acronym
littered throughout tmac/doc-common-u:
.\" NS Dd user macro (not parsed, not callable)
.\" NS set document date
.\" NS
.\" NS modifies:
.\" NS doc-date-string
.\" NS doc-command-name
.\" NS
.\" NS local variables:
.\" NS doc-date-XXX
.\" NS
.\" NS width register `Dd' set above
My first guess was it had something to do with comment-stripping for
distributed tmac files, but that wouldn't explain why unprefixed comments
are stripped too.
The description of the .HTML-NS macro (in tmac/www.tmac.in) would suggest
something debugging-related:
.\"
.\" An auxiliary macro for HTML (without following space).
.\"
.de HTML-NS
. nop \X^html:\\$*^\c
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- [Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files?,
John Gardner <=