Hi Jason, Jason McIntyre wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:54:20PM +0000:
> i have reverted it, with a heavy heart. Do you think i should try and convince the groff folks to always render .Aq/.Ao/.Ac as ASCII '<' and '>', even in UTF-8, HTML, PDF output and the like? Benefits: + easier rules for authors, smaller risk of mistakes, and ".Aq Mt" would no longer be an exception + allows nicer and simpler mdoc(7) source code for configuration file documentation like smtpd.conf and pf.conf and nicer markup in pages documenting HTML code + in programming documentation (as opposed to, say, quantum physics calculations) angle brackets are exceedingly rare, making .Aq mostly useless under the current rules Downside: - In cases where authors really want angle brackets - e.g., does a free software package to help with quantum mechanics calculations exist? - the output will look slightly worse, but not much worse, and given the rarity, i think that would be acceptable. Besides, people who want real angle brackets in some unusual situation can still use .Eo \(la foobar Ec \(ra . Yours, Ingo
