Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-24 Thread Humm
Quoth Ingo Schwarze: Magnitudes and use cases are important. It would be nice to know, even approximately, which systems _don't_ support `TQ` and other groff man(7) extensions, and how prevalent those systems are. Well, any Linux, BSD, and Illumos system is almost certainly fine unless the use

Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-24 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Mon, May 23, 2022 at 10:22:58AM +0100: > Doug wrote: >> I fail to see any case for deprecating .PD. > It seems pointless for GNU Groff to attempt to deprecate .PD when it is > only one of the man-page formatters and has no control over the many > existing man pa

Re: .TQ to replace .PD 0

2022-05-24 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, May 24, 2022 at 12:57:08AM -0500: > At 2022-05-24T04:44:21+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Your version (with .PD) has the clear advantage that it is more >> portable: it is likely to work on any man(7) implementation, >> whereas .TQ might fail on imple