Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG]

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2017-04-30T17:11:30+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
> 
> > The remaining man pages categorize as follows:
> >
> > mandb(1)                        FONT_MACRO_C
> > nmcli(1)                        DOCBOOK_C
> > passwd(1)                       DOCBOOK_C
> ...
> 
> Have you a summary combining your two survey-result sets?

I do not.  Of what value would it be?  If it's worth measuring this sort
of thing more than once, the analysis should be scripted.  Unfortunately
some of these categories are going to be hard to recognize without a
standalone *roff parser, which I don't think exists.

> For this email, it's
> 
>     $ sed '/^mandb/,/^$/! d' `mhpath .` |
>     > tr -s ' ,\010' \\012 |
>     > grep -v '[[:lower:]]' |
>     > sort | uniq -c
>           1 COMMENT_C
>          58 DOCBOOK_C
>          17 FONT_MACRO_C
>           4 PRIVATE_FONT_MACRO_C
>           1 SMALL_C
>           1 SPURIOUS_C_1
>           3 SPURIOUS_C_2
>           2 SPURIOUS_C_3
>           1 SPURIOUS_C_4
>           1 SPURIOUS_C_5
>          10 TILDE_C

Nicely done!

Regards,
Branden

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