Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: |i just posted a patch containing a complete rewrite of the mdoc(7) .Lk |macro to: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52849
I have not seen the patch yet, but .Lk is terrible and unpredictable by the document author, as you say. Making it not go in stand-out mode would be a great improvement in my eyes, one can use .Dl Lk or so if that is desired. |The point is to make it callable, get rid of the hard-to-predict |and counter-intuitive switching between in-line and display rendering, Yes. |and to make behaviour and implementation better harmonize with other |mdoc macros. For more details and a demo input file showing the |effects, see the bug tracker. | |Because of its current fragility, the macro is often used in non- |portable ways, resulting in ugly and inconsistent output. The goal |is to make it easier to use and more robust. Absolutely. |I'm looking for consensus here before moving the mandoc(1) |implementation in the direction that we will agree on. |So feedback is appreciated on both the changes in functionality |and on the new implementation. | |For convenience, i'm also appending the patch to this posting. I would be happy to include that patch of which i assume it is working for my thing. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
