At 2024-09-23T00:08:15+0000, hoh...@posteo.de wrote: > Last but not least, haven't you ever realised how dense the Troff > User's Manual by J.F.Ossanna and B.W.Kernighan really is! No style, no > feelings, no glitter, no Latin.
No Latin...huh. "Translate a to b, etc., on output." "One common use of user-defined registers is to automatically number sections, paragraphs, lines, etc." "10.3. Backspacing, underlining, overstriking, etc." "Numbers taken as horizontal (first, third, etc.)" "Space-character size (i.e., inter-word spacing)" "These values are additive; i.e., N=14 will invoke all three restrictions." "Versions of a word with a terminal s are implied, i.e., dig-it" "The sp request (§5.3) may be used in all cases instead of rt by spacing to the absolute place stored in a explicit register, e.g., using the sequence .mk R … .sp |\rnRu; this also works when the motion is downwards." "Multiple-V line separation (e.g., double spacing)" "All text processing (e.g., character comparisons)" The foregoing is a sample of Ossanna & Kernighan's employment of Latin abbreviations in CSTR #54 (1992 revision). > Shame on you, heirs! I certainly look forward to reading _Troff: Blut und Eisen_ as a salutary example of prose style. Regards, Branden
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