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Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE
From: |
Gunnar Ritter |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] The case against the case against .EX/.EE & .DS/.DE |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:18:50 +0100 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.2pre 12/25/06 |
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 3. These macros are already present in at least some legacy Unixes.
> Notably, .EX/.EE is in Ultrix/OSF-1.
Yes, and I see it is actually used in many Tru64 manual
pages; since I want to be able to display such system pages
with Heirloom nroff, I should have code for it anyway.
> I'm not sure where .DS/.DE
> came from, but considering the relatively large number of uses without
> local definition I'm sure it must be historical somewhere.
Can you say in which pages you discovered them? I find much
fewer examples for .DS, without a characteristic pattern.
An examination of the CSRG archives shows that .Ds had been
defined in -mdoc as a "filled block display" in 4.3BSD-Reno,
but was deleted with 4.4BSD.
Which DocBook tag should correspond to .DS?
> I wish to note that there is no other man extension that I
> would push in this way.
That is reassuring.
Gunnar
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- 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, 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 <=
- 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
- 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