> > What do you think about looking into groff_char also, not just
> > lifting? :-)
>
> I've studied it pretty carefully, actually.  How else do you suppose
> I built the translation tables in doclifter?

Touché.

> Sigh...I rather expected that was what you were going to tell me.
> Oh well, after you pulled HORIZONTAL LINE EXTENSION out of your hat
> it seemed worth asking.

Hmm.  I have

  U+23A2 LEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION
  U+23A5 RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION

> Meanwhile, I've converted two files in my copy of the CVS tree to use
> .SY and .OP; pdfroff.man and troff.man.  It wasn't very hard.  If
> these are typical, the cleanup job may not be quite as nasty as I
> feared.

This is good news.

> Oh, and I've managed to hack .SY so it produces a nice hanging indent,
> too.  The synopses look as good now as they did with the complicated
> macros, unlike my first attempt.

Please post it for review.

> There's a third now; .YS, meant to be used at the end if a Synopsis
> section.  It just restores normal indent and adjustment and
> hyphenation.

OK.


    Werner


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