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Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation
From: |
Gunnar Ritter |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:18:47 +0100 |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 don't think your citation of -mdoc is really on point.
I think it is. -mdoc essentially results in non-portable
documentation, and people do not like that. A nice example:
<http://groups.google.com/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/25dfcf9f59e304bf/a35687b22d253cd7?lnk=st&q=&rnum=7#a35687b22d253cd7>
Gunnar
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/24
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/26
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/26
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation,
Gunnar Ritter <=
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/27
[Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23