Hi, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:21:10PM +0200:
> You have a notion of "callable" and "parsed", and you should be > aware of that or you introduce errors which are hard to find. Wrong. Just assume everything is callable. Actually, mandoc warns if you use the name of a macro that is not callable on a macro line witout escaping it: schwarze@isnote $ mandoc -mdoc -Tlint .Sy Sh mandoc: <stdin>:1:5: WARNING: macro neither callable nor escaped: Sh And by the way, so does groff: schwarze@isnote $ nroff -mdoc .Sy Sh mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Sy (#1) Usage: .Sh not callable by other macros (#1) Besides, most macros are parsed and callable nowadays (thanks to the work done by the groff team, in particular Werner). So that distinction did complicate things in the remote past, but it no longer does for quite some time now. I'm not going to correct all errors in what you might say in the future, to save time and avoid noise. > [...] Yours, Ingo
