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Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
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Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:13:23 -0700 (PDT) |
The BitKeeper man page macros use this sort of construct a lot.
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From: "Doug McIlroy" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
> .TP
> .B \-scale \c
> .IR xfac [, yfac ]
Very clever. I wish I'd thought of it when I was editing
the v7 manual. Then it would have become a standard idiom.
Has nobody tried this during the nearly 40 years since?
Doug
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/29
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/29
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG], Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG], G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/30
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