Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hmm. What do you mean with `man package'? AFAIK, it's the job of the
> man formatter (this is, groff) to provide the macros to format a man
> page. I'm not aware of any other, non-roff package which contains an
> equivalent to `an-old.tmac' (which is loaded
> > BTW, I see a major obstacle to extend man as you suggest: groff
> > isn't always installed with its latest version. I can imagine to
> > add an update to the 1.18 series which comes with the man
> > extensions, but many, many platforms won't have this. So maybe
> > the current way is to reall
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> BTW, I see a major obstacle to extend man as you suggest: groff isn't
> always installed with its latest version. I can imagine to add an
> update to the 1.18 series which comes with the man extensions, but
> many, many platforms won't have this. So maybe the
> If we're going to extend man, we should do it properly, with the new
> definitions in the man package itself.
I don't object basically. However...
> Werner, I know it looks like an easy compromise, a soft option. But
> don't go there. *Bad* idea...
:-)
I will provide macro definitions (for
