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Re: [groff] anyone seen ".ny0" ?


From: Mike Bianchi
Subject: Re: [groff] anyone seen ".ny0" ?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:42:41 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

> .ny0

look for a macro definition:
        .de ny
          :
        ..

In the old days, no macro name was more than 2 characters so nroff/troff would
understand   .ny0   to be  macro ny  with  argument 0 .
                                                                Mike


On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 07:16:07PM +0100, Walter Harms wrote:
> Hello list,
> while looking at the xorg man pages there came
> a question what this  .ny0 may mean (i shorted that of cause):
> 
> ....
> 
> .ny0
> .TH XtAppNextEvent __libmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ "XT FUNCTIONS"
> .SH NAME
> 
> .....
> 
> I could not find this in the groff manual. It seems to do nothing.
> Any ideas ?
> 
> re,
>  wh
> 

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