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

[Meg McRoberts]

I spent many years writing man pages for kernel/driver interfaces
and the code examples there were often pretty long...  It would be
good if the section 2 and section 3 pages had more code examples on
them -- I don't know if that will ever happen (maintenance and commenting
can become a pretty major effort) but it would be nice if the tools
didn't prevent it...

--- "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Meg McRoberts <address@hidden>:
> > I do like mm's .ne functionality -- this allows the writer to specify
> > that the next <x> lines need to stay together on a page -- it might force
> > a page break if there isn't enough space left on the page, but it won't
> > force a page break if there is room.  But .DS/DE get really problematic
> > in a world where the output varies so greatly.
> 
> I agree that the "keep on one page" feature of .DS becomes pretty meaningless
> in an HTML world.  Then again, man-page displays tend to be very short, so it
> might not really be an issue if we tried to take that requirement seriously.
> -- 
>               <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
>