Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Werner,

Werner LEMBERG wrote on Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 03:27:24PM +0200:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>> Admittedly, it would be better to also credit the original authors,
>> not only the authors of the GNU reimplementation, as it is done
>> here, for example:
>>
>>   https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.7.html

> Mhmm, my name is missing...

Oops.  That error was introduced in 2012 when man-ext was first
mentioned.  Not sure how that happened and why it was never spotted;
the file an-ext.tmac was always clear about the authorship.
Sorry about it.

Fixed by the commit below, which will be in the next release.

Given that misattributions are awkward, i also regenerated
  https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.7.html
right away.  The following will automatically update tomorrow:
  http://man.openbsd.org/man.7

> Anyway, there are some serious typos on that page, for example
> 
>   MT   Begin a mailto block.  This is a non-standard GNU extension.
>        It has the following syntax:
> 
>          .                                    <====
>          MT address
>          link description to be shown
>          .                                    <====
>          ME

Weird.  Apparently, the CSS file was outdated or incorrectly linked,
not sure which.  The problem went away after regenerating the pages,
probably because they now link the CSS correctly.

Thanks for mentioning the CSS problem, too.

Yours,
  Ingo


Log Message:
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add missing mention of Werner Lemberg, 
noticed by Werner himself on <groff at gnu dot org>;
while here, add missing .An macros

Modified Files:
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    mandoc:
        man.7

Revision Data
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Index: man.7
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/man.7,v
retrieving revision 1.145
retrieving revision 1.146
diff -Lman.7 -Lman.7 -u -p -r1.145 -r1.146
--- man.7
+++ man.7
@@ -612,8 +612,13 @@ The
 language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting
 system in
 .At v7 .
-It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff.
-Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended
+It was later rewritten by
+.An James Clark
+as a macro package for groff.
+.An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com
+and
+.An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org
+wrote the extended
 .Nm
 macros for groff in 2007.
 The stand-alone implementation that is part of the