On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:32:58PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > Man page says: "No macro yet exists to cause a line break without > inserting a vertical space (such as troff's `.br' macro)". > > But since nroff(1) is actually a wrapper to GNU groff(1), .br macro works > there. Diff is at the end of letter. >
the point of that note is that the "doc" macros do not have an equivalent macro. you can of course use old-style macros. > > BTW: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/groff_mdoc.samples.7_in doesn't > contain such a statement too. > we maintain our own local copy of mdoc.samples.7 and the macro package. jmc
