Werner LEMBERG writes: > > I assume there wasn't any other, `official' possibility to > reset the footnote counter, right?
Well, there's specifying a second argument to the FD macro which causes the footnote counter to get reset at each first-level heading, but that appears to be just as undocumented. Since mm was primarily used inside AT&T where everyone had access to the source code (with comments!), that was the primary documentation -- everything else was just supplemental and not kept up to date. If I get an old mm document from someone, I don't want to have to go on a long search to figure out what the mysterious number register and string references mean and what the groff mm equivalents are before I can format the document with groff, I want it to just work! The existing macros already have a bunch of backward compatibility aliases for the most common internals, but I think it behooves us to add more when references to them turn up in existing documents. However, adding new aliases is as far as I think we should go -- I wouldn't want to revise the groff mm implementation just to support backward compatibility if there isn't already an existing equivalent to alias. -Larry Jones He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he does. -- Calvin
