Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > In general I might agree with you. However, .EX/.EE and .DS/.DE
> > have a couple of interesting properties:
> >
> > 1. They are, by far, the most commonly invoked man macros that don't
> > exist. :-) That is, significant numbers of man-page writers think they're
> > there already.
>
> How significant?
I can't tell you that immediately, as I'd have to run a full test with
some special instrumentation; that takes about 90 minutes. I'll put
it on the queue for my next one.
I can tell you this much: .EX/.EE was part of the Ultrix/OSF macro set,
so it shows up on a lot of Unix heirloom pages.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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