Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Real *roff is hardly the problem since it has supported the
> two-character requests (except .do) for more than thirty years
> now. The issues are with scripts that convert manual pages or
> build indexes for them or whatever. I would say a program that
> claims
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From this list it supports anything except .fam.
>
> Sorry, I have to ask this because you're not a native English speaker
> and the above seems technically implausible: did you get the sense of
> the negative in that sentence reversed? That is, if
Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > .br .nl .sp .bp .ft .fi .nf .ul .cu .tm .so .ds .as .rm
> > .rn .em .am .nr .rr .ig .pm .cc .c2 .ab .do
> >
> > This is not all the requests doclifter interprets. I also handle
> > .nop .return .mso .als .shift .fam, but recommend against putting
> > these i
[Sorry - for whatever reason I did not receive some replies to
my messages, so this is text quoted from the list archive]
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> While I agree with Gunnar's argument in general, I wouldn't go as far
> as avoiding .de. My doclifter is perfectly happy eating macro definitions
> a
