On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 06:25:29AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Any advice on how I can improve this? (I'll take "no, don't even try to
> do this" as read, from those who hate man(7). ;-) )
>
You did not check the macro for errors (correctness, portability)!
> This is a private macro, not something I'm proposing as an extension to
> any macro package.
>
> .\" The bold italic font is not accessible via the man macro package.
> .de BOLD-ITALIC
> . ie d an-trap \ \" Groff and Heirloom troff have this diversion.
> . ie F BI \{\ \" Is the font available?
> . itc 1 an-trap \" Set input trap for the next logical line.
> . ft BI \" Use the font.
> . if \\n[.$] \&\\$* \" Emit any arguments.
> . \}
> . el \&\\$* \" Otherwise, simply emit arguments.
> . el \&\\$* \" Dupe because "&" cannot be used in if clauses.
> ..
>
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Bjarni I. Gislason
