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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:43:10 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
Clarke Echols <address@hidden>:
> .TP 3 \" set bullet offset
> \(bu \" or other character such as dash or square
I'm pretty sure doclifter will turn this into a DocBook bulleted list,
but I don't have any examples handy to test it on.
> Until this discussion, I had never see .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE. I use
> Cygwin on my Win98 machine but I don't see a man page defining the
> macros anywhere in the manpages, so I have no clue what they do.
> I tend to resist the addition of other macros when existing macros
> cover the subject and keep it simple.
.DS/.DE -- display formatting for running text
.EX/.EE -- format an example with indent and CW font.
The trouble is that existing man macros don't actually cover these cases;
you end up writing cliches with .nf/.fi and .RS/.RE to handle them.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/27
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/27
- [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/27
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Meg McRoberts, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Clarke Echols, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/28
- Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE, Meg McRoberts, 2006/12/28