Hey Michael,
I tried to reply to the old thread where we talked about it,
but I couldn't find it.
I think it was in a thread of some patch for system_data_types,
so I didn't know how to filter for it :/
So let's start a clean thread for that.
Currently, man-pages(7) proposes:
=================
.PP
.in +4n
.EX
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
return 0;
}
.EE
.in
.PP
=================
I think you said that it doesn't always work.
I don't agree with that:
If you correctly use .RS/.RE instead of misusing .IP,
I think it will work always.
I mean, if you have a block that is indented,
I propose to use .RS/.RE for the whole block,
instead of .IP for every paragraph
(if you use .IP, then yes,
that construct needs to be modified to use it too).
An implementation of what I mean is system_data_types.7.
If you think it would still fail in some scenario,
please show me.
Another problem of that construct is that it uses naked .in.
I agree with it.
How about the following?:
=================
.PP
.RS +4n
.EX
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
return 0;
}
.EE
.RE
.PP
=================
I don't know if that syntax is correct,
but I tried it, and it seems to work.
AFAIK, it will _always_ work
as long as blocks are correctly indented using .RS/.RE,
and it uses man macros only.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Alex
