> > > On reflection, I think that should probably be ".ad b". It's > > > supposed to be restoring the normal adjustment mode for a man > > > page. > > > > I disagree. Perhaps someone likes to make the appearance of man > > pages formatted with -man similar to the ones formatted with > > -mdoc, this is, using ragged-right. > > Then I don't know what the right thing is here. I agree with your > design intention, but I can't see how to implement it robustly.
Well, doclifter ignores it anyway, doesn't it? > Even querying and storing the current state of adjustment in .SY to > be restored in .YS is likely to lead to subtle bugs, as I expect > many writing several .SY invocations in a row are likely to forget > to close any but the last one. This can be handled quite easily. Considering .SY .SY .YS it's just necessary to test a flag, say, \n(sy, which is set by the first .SY call. If it's still set in the next call to .SY, don't call the .ad request. > > I think I'll call the extension file `an-ext.tmac'. > > I did 'cvs up' and no such file is in the archive yet. Yep. > I'll send you a copy along with my patch set. Thanks in advance. > > Instead of omitting I ask you to use the following code: > > > > .if n \ > > . if \n(.g \ > > . do mso tty-char.tmac > > I'll reply to your later mail about this. Please ignore this. The other solution I've proposed is better. > > It's not really clear to me what you mean with `macro coders'. > > The people who wrote the troff macros in the existing pages. Well, the macros just work. Portability issues simply haven't been considered. Werner _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
