Am 25.03.2019 20:30, schrieb Ingo Schwarze:
> Hi Walter,
>
> Walter Harms wrote on Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 07:16:07PM +0100:
>
>> while looking at the xorg man pages there came
>> a question what this .ny0 may mean
>> I could not find this in the groff manual. It seems to do nothing.
>
> In gene
Hi Ingo,
> .de Pn
> .ie t \\$1\fB\^\\$2\^\fR\\$3
> .el \\$1\fI\^\\$2\^\fP\\$3
> ..
>
> What did the author think? That "n" mode does not have a "B" font?
Probably that inverse video was too annoyingly bright,
and underlining was more tolerable.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
> A good rule of thumb is: in a manual page, aim for simplicity
> and robustness. Don't try to outsmart yourself typography-wise.
Agree. Also, having consistency among manual pages is nice.
Suboptimal typography should be fixed in the macro package,
so that all manual pages can profit.
One ca
Is there a reason that tty.tmac translates \(bu to \(pc or \(md
regardless of the output device or whether \(bu is available?
.ie c\[pc] \
. tr \[bu]\[pc]
.el \
. if c\[md] \
.tr \[bu]\[md]
The only thing I can find on this is Ingo's message of 30 November 2015
("bullets render as question
