Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > If doclifter handles all these cases as well as you already
> > described there is no need for an exception to man format.
>
> It's going to be Werner's decision, ultimately.

I tend to advocate the use of .DS/.DE, .TQ, .EX/.EE, .SY, .OP, and
probably other nifty things to be used within man pages, *together*
with its macro definitions in the preamble.  This gives us both a
decent markup and backwards compatibility.

We definitely need a good guide for writing man pages, based on our
discussion -- something like a man-to-html.howto.  This guide should
contain (as an appendix) those macro definitions which a man writer
can then simply copy and paste.


    Werner