Hi Dave, At 2023-09-11T19:43:48-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > I have comments on two of the numerous changes of this commit. > > > this material can then be resequenced > > +by the > > +.b pdfswitchtopage > > +macro (for PDF output), > > by a tool that processes the output format, > > or physically moved > > to the beginning of the printed document. > > Before this insertion, this was two verb phrases joined by an "and"; > now it's written as a series of three items, but two are prepositional > phrases and one is a verb phrase, which is not a grammatical series.
Fair point. Wil fix. > > -Useful for forcing out footnotes, > > -but other than > > -that hardly ever used. > > -Must be followed by a > > +.\" Useful for forcing out footnotes, > > +.\" but other than > > +.\" that hardly ever used. > > I sympathize with wanting to save "page" space (and, more generally, > striving for concision), but completeness and clarity ought to take > priority, and I feel this deletion reduces those. > > A .bp or end of input are typically satisfactory ways to end a page or > a document, so a macro that ends a page but can only precede one of > those two things sounds nigh useless; the removed sentence was the > only thing that motivated the macro's use. Conversely, users who find > a footnote missing in their document will no longer be able to > discover the macro that will restore it by searching the -me manual > for the word "footnote." And even if they happen across .ep in the > manual, without that sentence there's still little clue this is the > solution they were looking for. You're a more seasoned me(7) user than I am; the only application of `ep` that I _can_ think of is to flush pending footnotes without causing a new page to start (which would be blank if the footnote area doesn't overflow). Does that match your understanding? Is there another use case? Regards, Branden
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