Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > A suggestion: Arguments to .UE and .ME, if any, should be glued on > > to the end of the output. > > Is there a reason for that? What exactly do you have in mind? In > other macro pairs .TS/.TE, .TE doesn't take arguments either...
The case isn't parallel. .TS/.TE is a block element, not an inline. (If .TE were to take an argument, it should mean something like "table caption".) I kept finding myself writing this: .MT [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe to the foobar mailing list .ME \&. in an effort to get a period properly glued to the end of the line. Eventually I realize that what I needed to do was this: .MT [EMAIL PROTECTED] . subscribe to the foobar mailing list .ME but that seemed wacky to me because the period for the sentence has to go before the sentence. What I wanted was to write this, which would seem more natural: .MT [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe to the foobar mailing list .ME . Actually, list comma makes a stronger case for this. Consider banana, orange, .UR http://www.kumquat.com , kumquat .UE apple versus banana, orange, .UR http://www.kumquat.com kumquat .UE , apple To me the second looks much more natural. > In plain text, you normally write > > Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and not > > Eric S. Raymond <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good point :-). -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
