URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68103>
Summary: [mm] add `Linum` register to expose list item number
of current list, and `:g` alias
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 28 Feb 2026 04:35:44 AM UTC
Category: Macro package mm
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 28 Feb 2026 04:35:44 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
This idea is [https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2007-09/msg00123.html
inspired by one raised way back in September 2007 on the _groff_ list.]
This one would require more care than the recently added `Ftnum` and `Rfnum`
register features, because `Linum` would need to be a _dynamic_ alias,
referring only to the active list, and updated every time a list starts (`LB`)
or ends (`LE`).
Since we can't have aliases of aliases, if we support the old DWB _mm_ name
`:g`, it would also have to be updated in parallel with `Linum`.
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