Re: [PATCH] man2/: SYNOPSIS: Use SY/YS

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Alex,

At 2024-12-01T22:45:20+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 02:51:27PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You can go ahead and use the second argument to `SY` now--older
> > groffs (and other formatters) won't complain about it.[1]

Sorry, I had a brainfart there--I should have said `YS` instead of `SY`;
that is what my example illustrated.

> Hmmm.  Actually, groff <= 1.23.0 is bad: it doesn't print $2.  See
> below.

Right.  And I wouldn't expect it to; a general rule in *roff is that
macros do nothing with arguments that they don't expect.  (mandoc(1)
prints them all.)

So yes, probably need to wait for 1.24 for this one.

Regards,
Branden

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