Re: man pages, defensive programming, and bibliographic formats

2020-01-27 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:22:08AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > (was: 01/01: tbl(1): Note origin of tbl.) > [...] > I threw together a script to count up man(7) macro use in our corpus: > > $ MANS=$(find !(build|EXPERIMENTS) -name "*.man"|sort) > $ man-macro-frequency-counter $MANS | sort

Re: man pages, defensive programming, and bibliographic formats

2020-01-25 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:22:08AM +1100: > Along with for the paragraphing macros, the font-styling macros are > among the very most frequently used. So, a significant minority of man(7) macros roaming the wild are part of the unusual macro class (.BI etc.

man pages, defensive programming, and bibliographic formats

2020-01-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
(was: 01/01: tbl(1): Note origin of tbl.) Hi folks, Ingo and I had an inadvertent off-list exchange. I thought I'd loop in the other developers and interested parties. At 2020-01-24T23:59:13+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 02:40:40AM +1100: > > Did