On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Colin Watson wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:18:29PM +0000: > > but much the same problem exists; page numbers are printed on the left > > of odd-numbered pages and on the right of even-numbered pages, > > Isn't that what one would most often want? When somebody prints a > manual page putting two virtual pages side-by-side on each sheet > in landscape orientation, then page 1 ends up on the left side and > page 2 on the right side of the first sheet, so the odd numbers > should be on the left, as indeed they are. [...] > Maybe we should change the man macros rather than the mdoc macros?
I don't think I have any stake in this either way, except that man and mdoc should be mutually-consistent, and IMO we should document the choice made in both groff_man(7) and groff_mdoc(7) with a brief comment on the rationale to head off future questions. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
