Hi, Franco Fichtner wrote on Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:42:58PM +0200: > On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:04:03PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
>>> Authors' emails in manpages are generally written as .e.g. >>> >>> .An Damien Miller Aq [email protected] >>> >>> Should these be like >>> >>> .An Damien Miller Aq Mt [email protected] >> perhaps. either Mt is fairly new, The first implementation i could find so far was committed to the groff CVS on March 23, 2001, and it was released with groff 1.17 on May 2, 2001. I can't exclude it appeared earlier elsewehere. Neither the final CSRG code nor Heirloom troff appear to support .Mt, though. >> or i never noticed it before. we could >> wholesale change stuff, but haven;t yet. I think i'd like that, even though we would have to touch large numbers of pages. I'd indeed prefer the following style, using pkg-config(1) as an example: .Sh AUTHORS .Nm was written by .An Chris Kuethe Aq Mt [email protected] as a replacement for the original freedesktop.org .Nm implementation. It was later extended and kept in sync (where relevant) with the original version by .An Marc Espie Aq Mt [email protected] and .An Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse Aq Mt [email protected] . Note that so far, the mandoc manuals themselves use just `Mt' and not `Aq Mt', but i think `Aq Mt' reads better and i should probably change the mandoc manuals, too. >> it probably does make sense for >> folks who want stuff like html pages. Exactly. >> i did add an Mt fairly recently, but there can;t be many in tree. > Looks like this is almost exclusively used in mandoc/mdocml for most > BSDs. Apparently nobody got the memo. ;) Maybe, but groff has been supporting it for a long time and that was the de-facto reference implementation of mdoc(7) before mandoc was written. So i think it's just that nobody did the work of adding the markup, yet. Yours, Ingo
