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Summary: [ms] want support for 4.2BSD `CT` and `TM`
extensions
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 21 Jul 2023 10:20:25 AM UTC
Category: Macro ms
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 21 Jul 2023 10:20:25 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Reported by brian m. carlson as
[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241394 Debian #241394].
This ticket is starting life "postponed" because I don't see hopeful prospects
for its resolution at this time.
* All other _documented_ (by Tuthill) 4.2BSD extensions to _ms_ are
implemented in _groff ms_ and have been for many years.
* The macro names `CT` and `TM` collide with Bell Labs uses. Granted, those
are for cover sheet management and we don't support them either.
* But adding Berkeley `CT` and `TM` support would require complicating the
package to select between AT&T and BSD dialects of _ms_, something we have so
far largely avoided.
* Volunteers for this work are few.
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