Re: on the need for better quotation in man(7) (was: names of ISO 8859 encodings)

[Dave Kemper]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:02 PM G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>     This is likely due for a cleaned up re-proposal under the new names
>     `QS`/`QE` as suggested by Doug McIlroy.

Man pages using these proposed macros--which, since the macros don't
exist yet, will be man pages edited in 2025 or later--will surely
never be formatted by a roff that's limited to two-character
identifiers.  Do other man-parsing tools expect all macros to be two
characters or less?  Or, as the man language is selectively expanded,
can its new macros be given human-meaningful names?