From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F27C27C47 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229572AbjJ1QaX (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:30:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55516 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229565AbjJ1QaT (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:30:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31FF5E5 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3149C433C7; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:30:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1698510616; bh=Zl3w8PIKfCq6LqJT6ys+xgwhQABgQfzbgyZVdu+SyMQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=XkM7wc0ktEs6UkkMH/6RVXsTShnAG0xCzL+6o1xDTlsk8em74APKDk6aFw05o6k/G ZkEsIQPNY+5rLVLH2VJjZa8TVDaPbtfNkWqFo3/zu/RxkIR6287DQ9vTMcY3YqBsrC Pe0i2gsPFcRZIGZ8c+ZK1QoCqNi/yNp6tLwKcAI0cYv0izuIsEl534Gl8hhAiT2KF+ kzP8rnOTfVsrEFVuxMT/B0MWjfp5L8Tw/Zl+rFsYBZux9kWU+UOyDGGit74o3lMyNa QNJD4VjYste+qW8WXYJMZl43KVeWQcUe2LbQ74nmlM99XbkMYNzyLg/05D6IGgbavb QdHHp7odmCboA== Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:30:13 +0200 From: Alejandro Colomar To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, groff@gnu.org Subject: Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix) Message-ID: References: <20231025185424.txreg7q47zigo24j@illithid> <20231026125835.phpfjhz6xbsde33d@illithid> <20231028132159.zkf6fh34mmfjzu37@illithid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yFDuoHuI4yXKbo08" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231028132159.zkf6fh34mmfjzu37@illithid> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --yFDuoHuI4yXKbo08 Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:30:13 +0200 From: Alejandro Colomar To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, groff@gnu.org Subject: Re: `\c`, mdoc(7), and man(7) extension macros (was: [PATCH 1/2] man*/: srcfix) Hi Branden, On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:21:59AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Regarding PP, LP, and P, what's the history of them? Why do we have > > the 3? I'm willing to reduce them to just one. >=20 > We covered this in another thread, but as Ingo noted, there is no hope > of actually _retiring_ any of these. At most they can be documentarily > deprecated and a high "-rCHECKSTYLE" setting can gripe about them. Makes sense. >=20 > groff man(7) formats every Seventh Edition Unix (1979) man page > correctly as far as I can tell, and I don't want to ever give that up. >=20 > (This is a slightly different objective from preserving perfect > compatibility with 7th edition's tmac.an. I have no qualms about > discarding compatibility with details of macro package behavior that no > one relied upon for practical purposes.) This gives me hope in changing the behavior of RS. :P Cheers, Alex --=20 --yFDuoHuI4yXKbo08 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEE6jqH8KTroDDkXfJAnowa+77/2zIFAmU9NxUACgkQnowa+77/ 2zIJlw/8D56AVI5il4fO/OuwLHQPXXuMkC4YNnsaduNeJh+BYUBCvb5f8jFc2ZFN Nl/1vLdqzmG2y98SKANvpL8aoGzy5htL2c+dEzmTfOvr3l0KKp5EyIMqa5UAno3/ 37kpNlF9wRRBi1UqJF/+VF/5IFGfmCuoognbKyDGq3uPsM7h3sbqioQTh3R8qsKM 2KZSsq8pk8GBlBnaG7dcRyFUK2GWzxGnZ6OBGxrzrtaC+sMqSfqCVehQGgs7PceG nay0NRV/neAGvrG6XN06ElB9SuSrrtFohEOXFlLCpGzuxClP5ndSKS5DtSt6LAWt 7RnA6tywADWeV168HtyqkI1I3eygKx6Vt4TzSul+EzpMefkbRM38UBg6IK+5XQG8 pU7dDtVoQyvD07IUlLV+T16einq1vVrkFTiCywd+Qbg5Znc/Aq3dPLKlrE/DJuO2 VQHZFZjWNWWBCMUrjErJWQR/lP04QgBsu6G7w2VaQ+YLa9M24N8OnKDDjZuPEMKQ tmu2O3kv11rayujq9m6ycxbwljaquQcw7E+JQM/Gz6i+FRj5q8XBEVzr8QjYhbrz BJvTsbnyUEEpcOsPrz7gEYyUy2kJ51mxYmJyJdJCrj7f355K8Ezx8EqT/FzfUZTI yatP4fDr6RIWuTsSjRIS4U3ofmJgGBq+a1N1RGIW531Nzc6kwAM= =CdI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yFDuoHuI4yXKbo08--