Hi Branden and Ralph,
On 7/24/22 12:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Branden,
Do you think I should go further and warn man page authors away from
attempting to redefine these macros in their pages?
No, I think you should go less and not change the headers and footers so
as to inspire the man-page author to correct the deviancy. :-)
The thing is, man-pages authors shouldn't ever consider that redefining
macros is their business. It's business of the distribution.
I don't think you need to document that, Branden: it should be obvious.
Writing a lot of code on top of every page to hardcode the author's
preferences is insane, and I don't think we should warn against it.
It's like many US' products, where they need to state for example that
contact adhesives should not be used as hair products; I think that's
insane. :/
Cheers,
Alex
