At 2023-07-30T09:35:28+1000, John Gardner wrote:
[I wrote:]
> > I wonder why mandoc didn't just call its roff(7) page mandoc(7), given
> > that it parallels groff(7) more than anything else.
>
> Strictly speaking, Groff is at fault here; the manual page dedicated
> to the Roff language proper shou
>
> I wonder why mandoc didn't just call its roff(7) page mandoc(7), given
> that it parallels groff(7) more than anything else.
>
Strictly speaking, Groff is at fault here; the manual page dedicated to the
Roff language proper should have been named as such, whereas groff(1)
pertains to an execut
>
> Eh? That's precisely what it is. It covers matters that are (more or
> less) common to all roff implementations. Have you looked at it?
Sorry, my wires got crossed. I completely misread this discussion…
I'll see myself out.
On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 09:42, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.
Hi Doug,
At 2023-07-29T15:16:42-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Cygwin did exclude gropdf and pdfgroff. "The accompanying man page"
> that I meant was groff.1. Perhaps that man page should say that not
> all groff distributions support pdf.
Okay. I want to keep groff(1)'s comprehensive list of ma
