Re: [Groff] Unix Research Editions 8, 9, and 10 Available.

[l...@bitkeeper.com]

Um, I'm on the mailing list where this was announced and they are not 
open source.  So slurping up their stuff is not, so far as I know, OK.

-Original Message-
From: "Ralph Corderoy" 
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:31am
To: groff@gnu.org
Subject: [Groff] Unix Research Editions 8, 9, and 10 Available.

Hi,

Research Unix Editions 8, 9, and 10 will no longer have copyright
asserted over them.
https://www.spinellis.gr/cgi-bin/comment.pl?date=20170328 says they
contain, amongst other things, "graphics typesetting tools" so perhaps
there's something of interest to today's troff users in them.

Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages

[l...@bitkeeper.com]

The BitKeeper man page macros use this sort of construct a lot.

-Original Message-
From: "Doug McIlroy" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 4:00pm
To: groff@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages

> .TP
> .B \-scale \c
> .IR xfac [, yfac ]

Very clever. I wish I'd thought of it when I was editing
the v7 manual. Then it would have become a standard idiom.
Has nobody tried this during the nearly 40 years since?

Doug