Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> > In general I might agree with you.  However, .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE
> > have a couple of interesting properties:
> >
> > 1. They are, by far, the most commonly invoked man macros that don't 
> > exist. :-)  That is, significant numbers of man-page writers think they're
> > there already.
> 
> How significant?

I can't tell you that immediately, as I'd have to run a full test with
some special instrumentation; that takes about 90 minutes.  I'll put
it on the queue for my next one.

I can tell you this much: .EX/.EE was part of the Ultrix/OSF macro set,
so it shows up on a lot of Unix heirloom pages.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>