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Re: [address@hidden: Re: weird \s]
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Steve Izma |
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Re: [address@hidden: Re: weird \s] |
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Sun, 5 Apr 2020 01:08:12 -0400 |
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On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 06:42:37PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Subject: [address@hidden: Re: weird \s]
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> Anyone arguing for \sDD is just misguided. If you want two things
> it is \s(12, if you want N things, groff gave you \s[1234].
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> Could we please just converge on this spec? I'm old and tired but
> if we can get agreement on this and noone wants to do the code I'll
> take a swing at it.
I'm in favour of this. If there are important reasons to preserve
legacy documents, put them in a revision control system and use a
sed script (as previously suggested) or something similar to make
a modern version.
-- Steve
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