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Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/:
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Alejandro Colomar |
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Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix) |
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Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:30:13 +0200 |
Hi Branden,
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:21:59AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Regarding PP, LP, and P, what's the history of them? Why do we have
> > the 3? I'm willing to reduce them to just one.
>
> We covered this in another thread, but as Ingo noted, there is no hope
> of actually _retiring_ any of these. At most they can be documentarily
> deprecated and a high "-rCHECKSTYLE" setting can gripe about them.
Makes sense.
>
> groff man(7) formats every Seventh Edition Unix (1979) man page
> correctly as far as I can tell, and I don't want to ever give that up.
>
> (This is a slightly different objective from preserving perfect
> compatibility with 7th edition's tmac.an. I have no qualms about
> discarding compatibility with details of macro package behavior that no
> one relied upon for practical purposes.)
This gives me hope in changing the behavior of RS. :P
Cheers,
Alex
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- Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix), (continued)
- Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix), Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/26
- Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing?, Ingo Schwarze, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing?, Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/26
- Re: Why does man(7) have 3 paragraph macros for the same thing? (was: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros), Alejandro Colomar, 2023/10/26
Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix), G. Branden Robinson, 2023/10/28
- Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix),
Alejandro Colomar <=
Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix), Ingo Schwarze, 2023/10/26