On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, James K. Lowden wrote:
The troff system was designed to be typed at a keyboard. The dot-on-the-left rule might be ugly, and the requests/macros terse, but the benefit to the user is relatively few keystrokes above those needed for the text.
A corollary of this is that if you find that a document has a high percentage of troff (macro) commands within it, your document will probably not read so well.
In the case of man-pages, this could mean that the explanation of the command or library/device interface in question is overly complicated.
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