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Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0


From: Humm
Subject: Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 18:21:04 +0000

Quoth Ingo Schwarze:
Magnitudes and use cases are important.  It would be nice to know, even
approximately, which systems _don't_ support `TQ` and other groff man(7)
extensions, and how prevalent those systems are.

Well, any Linux, BSD, and Illumos system is almost certainly fine
unless the user configures it in some very unusual way.  That
basically leaves us with two situations where trouble might ensue:
some commercial UNIX distributions, and individual users who
deliberately use a different roff(7) implementation (including for
manual page display) than their system default.  I have no idea
how to measure the frequency of the latter, but i guess it is
very rare.  Regarding commercial UNIX systems, i do not have
access to any of them except Solaris.

Always forgetting us poor Plan 9 users …

--
Humm



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