I'm pleased to announce the addition, in discussion for over a year[1], of a new semantic macro for the GNU implementation of man(7), prompted by and compatible with Plan 9 troff, for man page cross references: MR.
That’s nice, but s,Plan 9,plan9port,.
.MR ls 1 .
That’s nice and all, but still inconsistent with p9p -man. There, you’d do
.MR ls (1) . -- Humm