Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Doug, Douglas McIlroy wrote on Sun, May 22, 2022 at 09:21:19PM -0400: > .TQ strikes me as awfully special pleading: a single-shot zero-spaced > tagged list item. The typical use case is in a tagged list that uses normal vertical spacing in general, but contains a few entries that need two or

Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-22 Thread Douglas McIlroy
.TQ strikes me as awfully special pleading: a single-shot zero-spaced tagged list item. .PD is at least general-purpose. It sets paragraph spacing globally, which I deem much better than setting it separately (via .TQ) for every item in a list. I fail to see any case for deprecating .PD. Doug

Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Alejandro, > For the following existing usage of the deprecated .PD 0 I tried to > use .TQ in a way that I'm not sure if it's correct by just reading > groff_man(7): > > .PD 0 > .TP > tag1 > Some text here. > .TP > tag2 > Some more text. > .PD Yes, if you really