Re: the portability of an-ext.tmac

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2020-05-30T01:29:18+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Our an-ext.tmac (extensions to the man macros) says:
> 
> .\" The code below provides extension macros for the 'man' macro
> .\" package.  Care has been taken to make the code portable; groff
> .\" extensions are properly hidden so that all troff implementations can
> .\" use it without changes.
[...]
> Look closer:
> 
> \$*
> 
> This is not defined in CSTR #54.  Heirloom troff added support for it in
> release 050816 (2005-08-05)  Plan 9 troff still doesn't suppot it.
> (In both, the relevant code is in the seta() function in n3.c).
> 
> What should we do about this?  Anything?

No one commented on this, so for anybody who doesn't follow
groff-commit, I fixed it last month.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2020-06/msg00004.html

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