At 2021-09-12T15:22:35+0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 04:56:21PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar > (man-pages) wrote: > > I'm a bit worried that this might be overcomplicating it, and maybe > > a hypothetical .SSS macro would be useful here (or another > > solution). Do you have any thoughts about it? > > > > That hypothetical macro would behave like .TP + .B + .RS (as shown > > above; and that .RS would only end at a following .SSS/.SS/.SH) > > It is not important to me that my .SSS macro be used, but for > reference here it is: > > .de1 SSS > . if !r SSS_SN_ORIG .nr SSS_SN_ORIG \\n[SN] > . nr SN (2 * \\n[SSS_SN_ORIG]) > . SS \&\\$* > . nr SN (\\n[SSS_SN_ORIG]) > .. Oh, I definitely like this better than my own straw-man proposal. It's much cleaner. I still question the need for this depth of organization in a man page, but I could see the aboev becoming a nestable `SN` sub*-sectioning macro much more straightforwardly than a TP/B/RS-based solution. Of course, this one only indents the section heading itself, not the paragraphs the follow, so some RS/RE tomfoolery would likely still be required. Good to see you, Thaddeus--I definitely remember you from Debian mailing list days. :) Regards, Branden
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