[dropping some people I recognize from the groff list from CC] At 2023-04-09T14:17:57+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > - Using plain man(7) source is blazingly fast. So much that I > don't miss mdoc(7)'s indexability so much. > > However, I must admit that I do miss mdoc(7)'s power sometimes. > The man_lsfunc() and man_lsvar() functions for finding function > prototypes and variable declarations in man(7) source would be > much simpler using mdoc(1), and I could even use mandoc(1) to > find such things.
I must point out that I have sketched a solution for solving the problem of semantic tagging in man(7). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-12/msg00075.html ...though perhaps I should add some detail to that sketch. My ideas are firming up, so I may mail a proposal to groff@ and linux-man@ in the near future. I'm happy to report that all the man(7) extension macros I have in mind, except for `Q` for quotation[1], will be trivially ignorable; i.e., an implementation (like mandoc(1)) that doesn't recognize them can ignore them (treating them as comment lines) without doing damage to the rendered text of a page. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-12/msg00078.html ...and even that admits a one-line fallback definition. I suspect you could even get away with defining it as a string.
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