On 9/28/20 3:29 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Hi Branden! > > In groff_man_style(7) you wrote: >> Unused macro arguments are more often simply omitted, or good style >> suggests that a more appropriate macro be chosen, that earlier >> arguments are more important than later ones, or that arguments have >> identical significance such that skipping any is superfluous. > > After 15 minutes of gawking at this sentence, I still don't understand > what are you trying to say here. The sentence should be either > thoroughly rephrased or removed. I must say that I too found it hard to parse. I presume, Branden, that you mean: [[ Unused macro arguments are more often simply omitted, or good style suggests EITHER (1) that a more appropriate macro be chosen, (2) that earlier arguments are more important than later ones, or (3) that arguments have identical significance such that skipping any is superfluous. ]] But it takes a few scans to work that out. Perhaps break this into smaller pieces, or add some explicit structuring elements to the sentence? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
