The BitKeeper man page macros use this sort of construct a lot. -----Original Message----- From: "Doug McIlroy" <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 4:00pm To: groff@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
> .TP > .B \-scale \c > .IR xfac [, yfac ] Very clever. I wish I'd thought of it when I was editing the v7 manual. Then it would have become a standard idiom. Has nobody tried this during the nearly 40 years since? Doug
