Hi, Ingo!
At 2022-05-24T04:44:21+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Your version (with .PD) has the clear advantage that it is more
> portable: it is likely to work on any man(7) implementation,
> whereas .TQ might fail on implementations that are neither
> groff nor mandoc.
There's one wrinkle with `P
Hi Ralph, Branden, and Alejandro,
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, May 23, 2022 at 08:03:30AM -0500:
> At 2022-05-23T10:34:44+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Ingo wrote:
>>> The typical use case is in a tagged list that uses normal vertical
>>> spacing in general, but contains a few entries that
Hi again Branden,
> Ralph,
Sorry, didn't read it. You've had your quota of my time for a while.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Brendan,
> > > 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
> > > more tags for a few of the list entries. For example, in a csh(1)
> > > manual page, you might say something like:
...
> > Wouldn't one
Ralph,
At 2022-05-23T10:22:58+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I find your post to be fallacious.
> It seems pointless for GNU Groff to attempt to deprecate .PD when it
> is only one of the man-page formatters and has no control over the
> many existing man pages.
Let's plug different nouns from our
Ralph,
At 2022-05-23T10:34:44+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
[Ingo wrote:]
> > 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 more
> > tags for a few of the list entries. For example, in a csh(1)
> > manual page,
Hi Ingo,
> 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 more
> tags for a few of the list entries. For example, in a csh(1)
> manual page, you might say something like:
>
> .TP
> \fBcd\fP [\fIname\fP]
>
Hi,
Doug wrote:
> I fail to see any case for deprecating .PD.
It seems pointless for GNU Groff to attempt to deprecate .PD when it is
only one of the man-page formatters and has no control over the many
existing man pages. Even if GNU adherents strike out its use within
their reach, it must stil
